Author: Barry Culp
Date: 15:58:20 10/30/04
Greetings chess and computer friends ... My setup : P4 3.4 ghz system with 2gb RAM WIN/XP SP2 Shredder 8, Hiarcs 9, and Deep Fritz 8 all running on latest Chessbase GUI dated April 16,2004 Chessbase DVD Endgame Turbo 2 OK ... the 6 man tablebases that come with Turbo 2 are working. I have the Wilhelm program ((http://www.geocities.com/rba_schach2000/) and it verified that the krppkr.2.nbw file was defective. I downloaded a copy from the Crafty site ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/ and the Wilhelm utility verified the new version of that file and also verified the other 6 man files. As I said previously, the 6 man files from chessbase do work for all 3 of my engines .... Now the problems start. I have lots of free hard drive space so I thought I would start the long process of downloading some of the other 6 man files on the Crafty site. So far I have 4 new sets : KpppKR KBBpKR KBBpKQ KQppKQ I have verified all 4 sets with the Wilhelm utility. Unfortunately only the first two are OK with the chessbase GUI. The last 2 (KBBpKQ and KQppKQ) will NOT work. The symtoms are the Chessbase GUI will not load ..after a few seconds it just disappears). Some may think this problem has been attributed to "corrupt files". My files are OK at least according to Wilhelm (http://www.geocities.com/rba_schach2000/) I have tried to get support from Chessbase on this issue but have not even received the courtesy of an email reply. I am reluctant to continue the process of downloading additional 6 man files until I am confident that I won't be wasting my time. Any thoughts or comments would be appreciated
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