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Subject: Re: Thompson's EndGame Tablebases

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 10:03:42 06/28/03

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On June 28, 2003 at 06:43:44, GuyHaworth wrote:

>
>Ken Thompson's EGTs were first distributed by Ken personally on 4 CDs and then
>by Chessbase, which I guess does not sell them now.  ken's CDs had the
>installation advice on them;  maybe this was not on the Chessbase ones.
>
>If, after reading below, you still want to install Ken's EGTs, I think you would
>need a copy of Ken's original CDs.
>
>
>Ken's was the first initiative to make EGTs widely available across many
>endgames, and his EGTs set a new benchmark.
>
>Engines like Fritz and Shredder used to interface to them, but I suspect they do
>not know.

Do you mean "now"?
Right. The newer Shredder- and Fritz-Versions don´t support Thompson´s databases
like they did before.

Helmut



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