Author: Pierre Bourget
Date: 19:33:42 02/20/02
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On February 20, 2002 at 21:58:31, Bruce Ramsey wrote: >>>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 I have download some files (.emd) from hyatt site ,now how to install them to work ? I could not find a help file on the site . Pierre
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