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Subject: Re: Using 6-man tablebases in ChessBase (or die trying)

Author: Luis Smith

Date: 16:40:06 12/11/03

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On December 11, 2003 at 19:28:29, Mike Hood wrote:

>On December 11, 2003 at 19:24:08, Mig Greengard wrote:
>
>>Despite best intentions and various attempts, I can't get the downloaded 6-man
>>KRPPKR tablebases to work. From a manual count I have all the smaller related
>>tbs I would need (is there a list?) and the engines (Shredder 7.04, X3D Fritz)
>>initialize correctly. But the problem I was working on with just that material
>>balance isn't solved immediately as it should be.
>>
>>I downloaded all seven files (4.35GB) from Hyatt's site (thanks) but haven't had
>>any luck. From the little I could find out there they should work under
>>ChessBase with the aforementioned engines. Not true? Have to use Winboard with
>>Crafty? Thanks.
>
>What about using the 6-man multi-part tablebases in Fritz? Supposedly there's a
>new version of Fritz that supports the multi-part tablebases on the Fritz
>Endgame Turbo 2 DVDs, which I presume will soon be offered as an update on
>Playchess.

The way understand, but I may be wrong, is that the 6 peice tablebase files from
Hyatt's site are a new format and not useable by any chess engine yet.



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