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Subject: Re: Nalimov Table names - clarification please ?

Author: Roman Hartmann

Date: 02:44:09 08/24/05

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On August 24, 2005 at 05:30:14, Mark Mason wrote:

>I am currently downloading the 5 man Nalimov tables, one by one, from
>ftp://ftp.uib.no/pub/chesslib/5-man/ (I know DVD is easier but I'm doing it the
>hard way !)
>
>There seem to me to be duplicate table names which I'm confused about. For
>example, there is a table called KRB KN and also a table called KRB NK. They are
>diferent sizes so are not thebsame thing.

Don't know about that.

>Can anyone help explain the difference between these 2 ?
>
>Also - do Fruit 2.1 and Toga II 1.0 use TBs ?  The materiaol on the web seems to
>sugest not, but in chessbase it gives you the option to "use tablesbases" with
>Fruit and Toga loaded as the active engines.
>
>Many Thanks

Fruit doesn't use the tablebases. Still you can enable this feature under the
Chessbase GUI. In case there are only 5 pieces on the board in an endgame and
you have the 5-man installed the GUI will take control and play the endgame with
the help of the tablebases.

Roman



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