Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 08:56:31 03/11/05
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On March 11, 2005 at 11:29:32, John Merlino wrote: >On March 11, 2005 at 07:19:46, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On March 11, 2005 at 05:16:40, Dieter Buerssner wrote: >> >>>On March 11, 2005 at 02:25:01, Mike Byrne wrote: >>> >>>>kqrkq vs kqkqr -- why do we need both -- if we have wtm and btm, isn't this >>>>redundant or am I missing something here ? >>> >>>There is no kqkqr for Nalimov TBs. It would indeed be redundant. >>> >>>Regards, >>>Dieter >> >>ok thanks, I asked because there is in Chessmaster EDGB and it's listed under >>the MAKEALL5.BAT as well as at here >>http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/egtb.html, I borrowed the MAKEALL5,BAT >>script from Chessmaster to use for making the Nalimov EGTB (appropriately >>modified). It appears that on a dual Opteron . running a smp enabled 64 bit >>verison of TBGEN.EXE might be able to make all 3,4,and 5 man Nalimov EGTB's in a >>single day. >>0 >>I will know by tonight. > >Here's what it says in FEG.TXT (which I assume you also have access to) in >reference to differences between currently available formats. > >----------- >Nalimov's format has KxyKz and KzKxy merged. Eg in KRBKQ the wins for White >(KRB) are stored as well as the losses for White. In Thompson's and De Koning's >White can only win or not win. >----------- > >jm Thanks John , you and others have confirmed. I knew Thompson's was white only, I had assumed initially that De Koning's was both sides to move. I failed to read the fine print since I was just using the batch script.
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