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Subject: Re: Crafty 16.4 and *old* tablebases?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:22:28 02/07/99

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On February 07, 1999 at 19:03:21, Heiko Mikala wrote:

>Hi everybody, hi Bob!
>
>Is it still possible to use the old tablebases with Crafty 16.4? Bob's FTP-site
>says it is possible, if the new ones are not present. But is this true? I saw
>there were special exe's for the old TB's for versions 16.0 and 16.1, so it
>seems to me that the "normal" exe's won't work with the old TB's.
>
>At the moment I'm downloading the new 4-piece TB's, but that's a lot...
>
>I bought CD's with the old TB's (including most of the 5-man TB's) some time ago
>and would really like to use these...
>
>Greetings,
>
>Heiko.

If you can compile your own executable, yes.  I believe that you can edit
egtb.cpp, delete the #define NEW, and compile everything.  And it should now
recognize edward's format...




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