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

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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