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

Author: Martin Baumung

Date: 01:10:28 02/20/05

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On February 19, 2005 at 14:08:51, Peter Skinner wrote:

>On February 19, 2005 at 14:06:26, Helmut Conrady wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Well I have some older 6 man bases, and the new ones. Crafty takes a _long_ time
>to start up, while Hiarcs is a close second (it doesn't support the newer
>bases), yet Gandalf starts in the exact amount of time as it would with only 5
>man bases.
>
>Maybe because I have them all in one folder, it is seeing the two different 6
>man bases, and is just not using them?
>
>Peter

Hi Peter,

if you run some kind of file monitoring tool (e.g. the excellent "file monitor"
) while starting Gandalf 6, you can see what files it looks for. There are some
6-men TBs among them.

I don't have any 6-men TBs, but maybe there simply is a problem with the file
names.

Martin



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