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Subject: Help With Tablebases, Please!

Author: George Speight

Date: 15:58:06 08/12/05


I am going to run a round robin tournament with a number of CM10 engines and a
dozen or so other freeware engines, along with Fritz 8, Shredder8 and Hiarcs 9.
I think, tho i am not sure, that when i installed fritz, shredder, and hiarcs,
all three of them had their endgame tablebases installed also. The problem is i
have not set up any endgame tablebases in chessbase for any of the freeware
programs, including the CM10 engines.  How is that going to affect my results. I
want it to be a fair tournament. I dont want to hamper the 3 commercial programs
by taking the tablebases away from them, because i think that will take away too
much of their strength. On the other hand, i dont want them to have a terribly
unfair advantage over the other programs that are not using endgame tablebases.
Im not a programmer, and will never be able to figure out how to set up
tablebases. I really want to keep it as simple as possible. So do i just let the
ones that may have the endgame tablebases use them, and the ones that dont
obviously wont. Will that be pretty much fair and accurate, or what do i need to
do.     thanks, george



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