Author: Roger Brown
Date: 17:20:55 08/12/05
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On August 12, 2005 at 18:58:06, George Speight wrote: >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. Hello George, This cannot be what you intended to write. Chessmaster is not freeware. Never has been. The King will never use tablebases outside of its native gui so there is no tablebase issue with them As you are using the Chessbase (Fritz et al) gui, setting the path to your tablebase files once will enable all of the engines native to that gui to find them. Assuming that the freeware engines are UCI compatible - or are being run through the appropriate adapter - then setting the path in the Fritz gui is sufficient. Please be sure to check the box that says use tablebases. It works for me over here... Winboard engines that are being modified to run as UCI engines require the use of Polyglot. My advice is to do some more reading and start the tournament with the UCI freeware engines first. There are literally dozens of them out there. Have some fun and then tinker around. It really is not too difficult. I did it and if I can do it.... >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. The tablebases (4 man)are about 30 mb total. Drop them in a file on the C drive (or wherever) and point to them thusly: C:/TB in Fritz. No programming skills required. I did it so it has to be really simple... >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. I will yield to the experts here but I do not think that tablebases are going to make a huge difference here. I have seen experiments posted here that suggest that tablebases are not going to make a meaningful elo difference (particularly in the context of a basement tournament - that is not an insult, I run them all the while!) so go ahead with or without. It is up to you which way to go but installing tablebases for use with chessbase products is simple and fast. Have fun! I hope this helped. Later.
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