Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:07:42 10/15/98
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On October 15, 1998 at 12:20:41, Djordje Vidanovic wrote: >Thanks for looking into this -- I did think that you'd eventually reply :-) >Of course I unzipped the files :-)(I am not THAT forgetful) and I've got more >than 2.5 gigs of tablebases on my disk. My Crafty has access to 76 tablebases >amongst which are the KRP KR databases and the sizes are, just checked: > >536,857,464 tbb >536,872,010 tbw > >I can see now the uneven sizes of these :-( so the downloading must have been >faulty, right? (shoot!!!!) > >What sidetracked me was my checking up on the Lucena position and the such where >Crafty, using the KRP KR did so well, finding the win immediately... > >Wait :-) I just checked the zipped files and the sizes match the zipped bases >that you quote! What is it then? A corrupted file or a bad Winzip prog? Or >something else... Should I try to unzip the zipped bases again or is it useless? > If your zip files match mine exactly (size-wise) you might try unzipping them again. But if they don't match each other exactly (and match the size I gave below) then you have a problem. I believe that there is also a gunzip.exe on my ftp machine that you can try if you think your winzip has a bug... Bob > >Regards, >Djordje > >On October 15, 1998 at 10:04:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>finally had time to look at this. Questions: (1) do you have the >>KRPKR.* tablebases? I can't get my program to consider anything but >>Ka4 here... Although at move 75, b5+ also seems to be ok, based on a >>search of just that move (+4.76)... >> >>wait! at move 76, Rd5 is a blunder. And on my machine, I *instantly* >>get Rd5 is a draw. So I now assume you don't have KRPKR tablebases? >> >>WAIT! :) At move 76, with egtb=0, it also sees this is a draw. >> >>Do you by any chance have KRP KR databases, and if so, do the sizes >>match these: >> >>-rw-r--r-- 1 hyatt chess 536870912 Apr 28 11:02 KRPKR.tbb >>-rw-r--r-- 1 hyatt chess 536870912 Apr 28 11:02 KRPKR.tbw >> >>If not, do they match these: >> >>-rw-rw-r-- 1 hyatt 30 111633299 Oct 16 1997 KRPKR.tbb.gz >>-rw-rw-r-- 1 hyatt 30 74903494 Oct 16 1997 KRPKR.tbw.gz >> >>If they match the latter, you forgot to unzip them. They are useless >>in that compressed state. They must be 536,870,912 bytes long, or you >>are dead... >> >>Let me know what is going on here.. >> >>Note that if you download databases, since they are xxx.yyy.zzz filename, >>some versions of IE and netscape will drop the .zzz for you without saying >>anything. leaving you with totally ruined databases...
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