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Subject: Re: How were Endgame Tablebases Developed?

Author: Kelly Fergason

Date: 19:02:35 01/22/04

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On January 22, 2004 at 20:29:41, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 22, 2004 at 20:23:30, Bob Durrett wrote:
>
>>On January 22, 2004 at 19:59:40, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>
>>>On January 22, 2004 at 19:45:25, Bob Durrett wrote:
>>>
>>>>On January 22, 2004 at 19:03:43, Dann Corbit wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On January 22, 2004 at 17:58:22, KarinsDad wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>Did programs actually go through every single legal move to create these?
>>>>>
>>>>>Divided by a constant for reflections, rotations, etc.
>>>>>
>>>>>http://supertech.lcs.mit.edu/~heinz/ps/NHH_ICGA.ps.gz
>>>>
>>>>I could not unzip this file with WinZip.  How to unzip it?
>>>
>>>Here it is decompressed:
>>>ftp://cap.connx.com/chess-papers/NHH_ICGA.ps
>>>
>>>You will need a postscript interpreter to read it.
>>>If you don't have one already, this works well:
>>>http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~ghost/
>>
>>Before I do this I would like to have your personal assurances that downloading
>>and installing the "ghost" files will not modify my Microsoft Office 2003
>>software.  I recently had a horrible experience with ROBO products which do
>>modify Word, Excel, etc.  Installing the ROBO software caused me to lose
>>features of Microsoft Office which I use daily.  It took a threat of a lawsuit
>>to get the mess off of my computer.
>
>I never give my personal assurances about anything.  I have it installed on my
>machine.  It might break everything you have and format your hard disk.
>
>>If you really don't know the answer, please do not hesitate to say so.  I went
>>through HELL with the ROBO stuff [There was no deinstaller no obvious way to
>>uninstall the hidden files and registry entries.] and do not wish to go through
>>anything like that again!  I'm sure you'll understand.
>
>Maybe Adobe's Acrobat reader can work with Postscript.  I find that the PS
>reader works with postscript and the PDF reader works with PDF files.  But YMMV.
>
>If really, really bad things happen, I won't help you to fix it.
>I'm lazy, like that.


This may be the funniest post (on any topic) that I have
read in more than 10 years...

Kelly



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