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Subject: Re: Last-Ditch Effort at Help on This-Please

Author: George Speight

Date: 19:15:10 11/11/05

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On November 11, 2005 at 22:10:39, Michael Yee wrote:

>On November 11, 2005 at 22:04:05, George Speight wrote:
>
>>On November 11, 2005 at 21:39:29, Michael Yee wrote:
>>
>
>>>(2a) Start zappa.
>>>
>>>(2b) Look for the "zappa_log.txt" file in the same directory that has
>>>"zappa.exe".
>>>
>>>(2c) verify that you have lines similar to:
>>>
>>>tablebase_init(): allocated 8388608 bytes for the tablebase cache.
>>>tablebase_init(): searching for Nalimov tablebases at path "c:\games\chess\tb"
>>>tablebase_init(): found TBs with up to 4 pieces.
>>>tablebase_init(): TB indices & decompression using 1527kb of memory
>>>
>>>Michael
>>Thansk, Michael. Glad to know about Pro Deo. No one told me that. On Zappa, in
>>the lines in the config. file you are referring to, if the lines dont match what
>>you say, I am supposed to change them to what you have in each line above. Am i
>>correct.  And no thoughts i guess on List 512.    Thanks, George
>
>Hi George,
>
>Those lines aren't from the "zappa.ini" config file--they're from a file called
>"zappa_log.txt" that gets created every time the engine is run. It records
>things that zappa does when loading up, e.g., finding the opening book,
>allocating memory for hash tables, finding tablebases, etc.
>
>In the example snippet above, it shows that it's looking for tablebases in a
>certain path (that I specified in "zappa.ini"), and successfully finds them.
>
>Michael
Thanks, Michael. Okay, ilook at the lines. Lets say some need to be changed.
Where do i make the changes?   Lastly, not able to help on List?   Thanks,
George



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