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Subject: Re: Tablebases on 2 Hard Disks??

Author: Ray Banks

Date: 05:02:55 11/07/05

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On November 07, 2005 at 06:30:35, Per Jørgensen wrote:

>Hi Chesscomputerfans!
>
>I seriously consider to buy an AMD Dual Core CPU in order to be able to arrange
>Enginematches with Pondern ON. I got a good advice here in the Forum; buy a
>second Hard Disk and copy the TB's on this one so that you have 2 paths to the
>TB's located on two different Hard Disks. I do my testing in the Shredder 9
>surface and I can see that I can add up to 4 paths to the location of the TB's.
>No problem. Here comes my question: How do I exactly tell an engine (it could be
>Fruit 2.2.1, Shredder 9, Fritz 9 or anyone else who supports TB's) that it
>should use path 1 and told the opponentengine to use path 2??
>
>I hope someone can help me :-)
>
>Best regards
>Per

I don't think you can do that, unless an engine has it's own ini file and even
then I'm not sure which would override which.

Anyway I don't believe you need to with a single ponder on match. There is only
one position, and there will be some commonality with what tablebases are being
accessed, and they will be cached firstly by the value in MB you set in the GUI,
and secondly by the O/S. That is my view, but others may well disagree






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