Author: Christopher Morgan
Date: 19:43:15 10/29/05
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On October 29, 2005 at 21:04:34, George Speight wrote: > I purchased the original Fruit 2.2 I just got thru downloading the update. >Unfortunatley, I have no idea where to go from here. I have always just run >engines and never worried about adding tablebases, so I have no experience with >this. I dont know where to find them, how to add them or anything. Basically on >this I am as lost as a goose in a hailstorm. Could someone please help me on >this. Thanks very much, George George, Very briefly: You can find the EGTBs (tablebases) for free at Bob Hyatt’s site at ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/ I suggest downloading only the 3,4 and 5 piece EGTBs located in a separate folder, roughly 7.5 GB and 280-290 files. There are some six man EGTBs available also but they are very large files. You can also buy them at ChessBase in a couple of DVDs, and, I believe at the Russian chess software retailer Convekta, both sites online. Convekta’s come with Chess Assistant, their chess database program. If you use any of the ChessBase Fritz family chess playing programs, each comes with a small set of the most common EGTBs. In the Fritz family under tools-options-tablebases you type in the path to your tablebases and when you load an engine specify whether or not to use tablebases. Other chess playing programs have their own methods for activating tablebase use for those programs that can use tablebases. Not all programs can use tablebases. I’ve installed the Fruit update, Fruit 2.2.1 in Fritz 9 GUI and the tablebases work just fine. Christopher
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