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Subject: Re: One More Important Tablebase Question-Please Help

Author: George Speight

Date: 19:33:41 11/03/05

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On November 03, 2005 at 22:19:06, William Penn wrote:

>On November 03, 2005 at 21:55:08, George Speight wrote:
>
>>
>>I just got thru installing 3,4, and 5 man tablebases in chessbase. Before i
>>installed them, theprograms could not immediately show #24 or #16 or whatever,
>>when I set up a king and queen vs. king a rook. Now they can. And in my analysis
>>windows before i installed the tablebases it did not show TB= 588 or some
>>number. Now it does that also. Whcih tells me my tablebases are working. They
>>will show TB=a particular no. when i run Fruit 2.2.1 in such situation, but wont
>>when i run Fruit 2.2  Which is good, that is the way it should work. But the
>>problem i dont understand is any of the programs that can access the tablebases
>>will show TB= a no. in each analysis line. BUT THEY WIIL DO THAT  even when in
>>the engines list i uncheck the box that says "use tablebases"  I thought
>>unchecking that box would disable them, but if so why does the TB= 588 or
>>whatever show up even then. Am i disabling them when i uncheck the box. Confused
>>on this. Any help greatly appreciated.  Regards, George
>
>Chessbase software uses .ini files for such settings. The one which controls the
>tablebases is chssbase.ini located in the windows folder. If you run into
>tablebase related problems, rename or delete that file and the software will
>make a new one automatically. Otherwise, it might work simply to close then
>restart the GUI and/or your computer.
>WP
>
>WP
Thanks, William      Regards, George



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