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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:26:02 02/19/05

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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


Note there are "6 man egtbs" and there are "new 6 man egtbs".  The new ones
require an updated egtb.cpp, which is not going to be a part of any engine that
is over a month old, as that is when the new egtb.cpp was released...



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