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

Author: Martin Baumung

Date: 23:36:13 11/11/05

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On November 11, 2005 at 22:39:38, Michael Yee wrote:

>On November 11, 2005 at 22:15:10, George Speight wrote:
>
>>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
>
>Well, if something looks wrong in the log, it means something wasn't set up
>correctly. (You can post it here if you're not sure.) Changing the log file
>won't fix the problem, though.
>
>Here's an example. Suppose I set the TB path wrong in "zappa.ini" (e.g., to
>c:\uhoh). Then the "zappa_log.txt" log file that gets created next time I run
>zappa has:
>
>set_option(): tbcache = 8388608 (8M)
>tablebase_init(): allocated 8388608 bytes for the tablebase cache.
>tablebase_init(): searching for Nalimov tablebases at path "c:\uhoh"
>tablebase_init(): found TBs with up to 0 pieces.
>tablebase_init(): TB indices & decompression using 0kb of memory
>
>So it shows that zappa wasn't able to load the TBs. I would then have to correct
>the problem in my "zappa.ini" file.
>
>I don't know too much about List. However, here are a couple tidbits. Leo's info
>on his WBEC site says that List 4.61 didn't have TB support. On the other hand,
>someone just posted that the new commercial loop list just added TB support. So
>did an inbetween version 5.12 have TB support? I have no idea, but maybe someone
>else might know.
>
>Michael

List 5.12 does have TB support, however it doesn't display TB hits.

Martin



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