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Subject: Re: Tablebase questions

Author: William Penn

Date: 05:19:27 07/10/05

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On July 09, 2005 at 09:28:29, Peter Kasinski wrote:

>
>1. Some programs (mostly Chessbase, but also CP) crash on initializing certain
>6-man tablebases while working fine with others.  Is there a known reason for
>this selective acceptance?  Example: BPP vs. N is OK, while NPP vs. B crashes
>Hiarcs 9 (updated to the latest GUI). Removing these files from the directory
>heals Hiarcs 9.

Some of the 6-man TBs require special handling, so older engines won't do it
right. Presumably Hiarcs 10 will be fixed to work OK.

>BTW, Shredder 9 has no problems and works with all of the ones I tried (over
>600).
>
>2. I noticed that .tbs files are present in Bob's directories. Seems they only
>contain statistics for a given TBS - I presume they are not needed?

They are for your information only (not needed).

>
>Thank you,
>PK



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