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Subject: Re: Tablebases and Shredder 6

Author: Bruce Ramsey

Date: 18:58:31 02/20/02

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>>Hi Pierre - you can point to the cd dir or copy it to your hard drive until
>>you're blue in the face and it will do no good, because the position you
>>describe is a 5-man position, and on the CD you only get 3 and 4-man tablebases
>>
>>See ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/ the subdir called "five" for the tables
>>you need.  You can download all of them if you have the time to wait and the
>>disk space (I did) or be selective and just pull the ones you want (but since
>>there's a P in the position maybe you should get all the tables into which the
>>position might promote? I dunno, I just got all the 5-man tables at once)
>>
>>HTH, Bruce
>
>Wow ,you are right i just discovered that ,no 5-man tablebases ,i am very
>disappointed.

Each CD-Rom can only hold about 0.65 gigs.  My c:\tb directory has 3/4/5-man
tables and takes up 7.05 gigs, or about 10 CD-Roms worth.  And it isn't that the
Shredder authors were too lazy to zip the 5-man tables to squeeze them all onto
the one CD-Rom.  The table-base files are already very compact, zipping them
buys about nothing in terms of space savings

>Now ,can i use my Fritz 5.32 CD who has some 5-man tablebases
>instead with Shredder 6 even if they are by Thompson and not by Nalimov ?
>Also how to get the board sound on when watching a game between two engines like
>with old Chessbase GUI ?

Hopefully others can answer these, I dunno.  But as for using anything but
Nalimov tables, I switched to just Nalimov a while ago and I'm not going back.
Just my 2 cents...
Bruce

>
>Thanks,
>
>Pierre



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