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Subject: Re: Tablebases and Shredder 6

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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