Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:16:41 02/19/05
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On February 19, 2005 at 20:51:15, Peter Skinner wrote: >On February 19, 2005 at 20:26:02, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>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... > >This brings up a good question. Is it safe to mix old and new 6 man egtbs >together? > >Or will they all be converted to the new format? > >Peter Format isn't new. Just the old EGTB probe code has some egtbs flagged as 8 bits when they have to be 16 bits. The format for all files is exactly the same except for this, and we've had 16 bit tables already. Any that have a mate in over 125 or 126 (not sure which) require 16 bits for the scores.
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