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Subject: Re: Which programs can access 6-piece tablebases...

Author: Helmut Conrady

Date: 11:06:26 02/19/05

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On February 19, 2005 at 13:26:40, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On February 19, 2005 at 13:00:26, Martin Baumung wrote:
>
>>On February 19, 2005 at 12:58:28, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>
>>>On February 19, 2005 at 12:54:50, Martin Baumung wrote:
>>>
>>>>On February 19, 2005 at 12:31:56, Peter Skinner wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>On February 19, 2005 at 12:24:24, Jasmine Baer wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>>...and, can they access the 6-piece tablebases found on Dr. Hyatt's site (once
>>>>>>they are downloaded to HD, of course!)?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Sorry if this seems like a newbie question.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>I have seen it written that Hiarcs 9 can access the 6-piece tablebases, and an
>>>>>>updated version of Fritz 8 (came with CB's Endgame DVD) can do so, too.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>How about Shredder 9 for CB, and Shredder 9 for Classic Interface?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>What about the stong engines from Lokasoft?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Can any of the "amateur" chess engines like Fruit, Crafty, etc. access these
>>>>>>tablebases?
>>>>>>
>>>>>>Thank you, very much.
>>>>>
>>>>>Hiarcs 9, Shredder 9, Crafty, Zappa. That is all that I know of.
>>>>>
>>>>>I don't know of a single Fritz engine that does.
>>>>>
>>>>>Peter
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>YACE also does support 6-men tablebases. I don't know about YACE Paderborn, but
>>>>YACE 99.87 definitely does.
>>>>
>>>>Cheers,
>>>>
>>>>Martin
>>>
>>>I wasn't aware of that. Thanks. I will add it to my list.
>>>
>>>Peter
>>
>>Hi Peter,
>>
>>you also can add Gandalf 6 to your list :-)
>>
>>I just found out that it also supports 6-men TBs.
>>
>>Best,
>>
>>Martin
>
>I own Gandalf 6.0 and while it says that it does, there must be a setting
>somewhere to turn it on.
>
>It starts up in the same amount of time as with 5 men, so it is not enabling
>them on start up.
>
>Peter

The 6-men code has changed several times. So some engines can only access SOME
of the 6-men. Shredder 9 UCI under Shredder Classic, Crafty and Wilhelm can
definitely use ALL 6-men. The best way to check this is using the KRP-KRP
database.

Helmut




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