Author: Helmut Conrady
Date: 00:51:07 02/20/05
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On February 19, 2005 at 23:16:41, Robert Hyatt wrote: >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. Examples in the newer 6-men tBs for mate in >126: kppp-kp and krp-krp. Helmut
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