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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:32:31 12/12/03

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On December 11, 2003 at 23:18:45, Richard Sutherland wrote:

>On December 11, 2003 at 23:13:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>
>>egtb.cpp has changed.  As programs use the new code, they will access the
>>new tables.  Until then, no cigar...  The files are getting bigger.  To
>>access them requires new code.
>
>
>
>Ahha, I knew there had to be a logical reason behind it. Is the new format and
>code now a standard among'st the chess programming community, so that we can
>expect future products to use it?


Yes...

And old files are compatible.  The changes only affected the new files that
blew way beyond 2.0 gigabytes in total size...  So an old program will only
use the files it knows how to use, a new program will use all old files and
all new files...

Pretty painless, overall.





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