Author: Bryan Hofmann
Date: 05:18:22 06/07/04
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On June 06, 2004 at 21:02:54, Dave Kuntzsch wrote: >On June 06, 2004 at 17:19:32, Bryan Hofmann wrote: > >>On June 06, 2004 at 16:50:54, Dave Kuntzsch wrote: >> >>>This is happening with both 19.10 and the "fixed" 19.13. The log shows that it >>>found the five piece tablebase files, but there are no tablebase probes when >>>five or fewer pieces are left. >>> >>>Dave >> >>In the Engine Management (Details Tab) for Crafty make sure you have the command >>line options of tbpath=c:\where-your-EGTBs-are . You can not give this in the >>.rc file Crafty needs to have this when it starts. > >Thanks for the suggestion, but it still doesn't seem to be working. The log >shows that the tables were found in the beginning but when the board is cleared >down to five and under pieces, it still indicates it is searching. The stats say >this: "endgame tablebase-> probes=0 hits=0". Also moves are taking at least a >second. > >Dave Do you have EGTB in your crafty.rc file? If you do not have this Crafty will find them but will not use the EGTBs unless this is in the crafty.rc file. Also are all of the EGTBs in the same directory or do you have multiple directories? For a test make sure you have the above setup and enter in the following FEN (copy with a ctrl+c and then switch to Arena an press F6 to paste) 4k2r/4p3/8/8/8/8/4P3/R3K3 w Qk - 0 1. The press the analyze button in Arena, it will display; Crafty 19.13 WB2 173 MB: 15 00:06 M18 1. Ra8+ Kf7 2. Rxh8 <HT> 16 00:16 M18 1. Ra8+ Kf7 2. Rxh8 <EGTB> 17 00:31 M18 1. Ra8+ Kf7 2. Rxh8 <EGTB> 18 00:49 M18 1. Ra8+ Kf7 2. Rxh8 <EGTB> 19 00:51 M18 1. Ra8+ Kf7 2. Rxh8 <EGTB>
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