Author: Uri Blass
Date: 09:10:20 07/24/04
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On July 24, 2004 at 11:59:41, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >On July 24, 2004 at 11:01:27, Uri Blass wrote: > >>On July 24, 2004 at 10:14:58, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >> >>>On July 24, 2004 at 10:04:21, Peter Berger wrote: >>> >>>>On July 24, 2004 at 09:42:16, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >>>> >>>>>On July 24, 2004 at 09:36:19, Peter Berger wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>"Tablebases >>>>>> >>>>>>Gothmog now supports Nalimov endgame tablebases. In order to use >>>>>>them, you must specify the location of the tablebases on your hard >>>>>>disk in the gothmog.ini file. Unfortunately, it is not possible (yet) >>>>>>to configure the tablebase location through the UCI interface; even if >>>>>>you use Gothmog in UCI mode you must set the tablebase location in the >>>>>>init file." >>>>>> >>>>>>Have you followed this advice? Works for me. >>>>>> >>>>>>Peter >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> Hi Peter >>>>> Arena 1.08 and Gothmog were configured correctly >>>>> and it just happened what I reported. The above >>>>> advice must be wrong: there is no init-file but >>>>> only a ini-file I think. >>>>> Kurt >>>> >>>>It is a typo in the README file, I didn't correct for sake of correctness of >>>>quote. Even if you use Gothmog as an UCI engine you have to setup the tablebases >>>>in the gothmog.ini file. Then they will work - at least they do here. >>> >>> >>> Hi Peter >>> No question: the tablebases do work at me but only if >>> gothmog.exe and tbs are in the same drive. Yesterday >>> we installed Arena on the drive c: and the EGTB were >>> located on drive e:\tbs. And even with the having set the >>> gothmog.ini to e:\tbs the EGTB didn't work. We could >>> only solve the problem by changing the gothmog.ini file >>> to c:\tbs and by copying the EGTB to the drive c:\tbs. >>> Kurt >> >>I think that it is a design decision and not a bug. >> >>Movei of today does not use tablebases but I have the same design decision for >>book and movei can read book only if it is in the same folder as the .exe file. >> >>I simply do not know how to tell it to read a book from another file. >>I may implement it if changing it is something that takes few minutes but >>unfrotunately with my limited knowledge in C it is going to take at least some >>hours to do it without help and maybe more than it and this situation does not >>encourage me to try it. >> >>Uri > > > Hi Uri > I doubt that it's a design decision. If the users have > the possibility to choose a path for the EGTB, nobody > would have the idea that it would not work if the tbs > are not on the same drive. On the other hand there is > no problem but this should be mentioned in the readme > file. > Kurt You are right. It seems that I did not read peter's post carefully enough. I assumed from it that in the readme it is claimed that it is not possible to configure the tablebase location because I only payed attention to the part: "it is not possible (yet) to configure the tablebase location through the UCI interface" Uri
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