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Subject: Re: new tablebases?

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 14:40:36 10/25/98

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On October 25, 1998 at 13:20:14, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On October 25, 1998 at 11:45:40, James Long wrote:
>
>>I read a post somewhere (maybe rgcc) within the last week
>>or so that discussed a new tb generator.  Is this thing
>>'out' yet?  If so, where can I get it?  If not, where can
>>I get Edward's tb generator?
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>>
>>---
>>James
>
>
>Written by Eugene Nalimov...  He found a bug in the 5-piece endings with
>pawns and made some changes.  I have been totally snowed under here and haven't
>touched chess in a few days, thanks to a complete revamping of our network,
>converting everything to 100baseT and/or gigabit, plus going from software
>routing to hardware routing, which resulted in massive changes to IP addresses.
>
>I can't say whether he's got everything working yet or not, since I haven't
>tried it.  Hopefully the coming week will be less hectic here and I'll have a
>chance to look at this again...
>
>Bob

I'm waiting for Bob to incorporate probing code in Crafty to make
sources public. Don't see any problems - that code already
incorporated into one commercial program.

There was a bug in the generator that sometimes could cause wrong
results, but I think I fixed it. Now I have ~2Gb of gzipped
tablebases, with more to come in several days.

Eugene



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