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Subject: Re: I'm NOT Talking about Fritz9 Get off it.

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 14:13:39 12/02/05

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On December 02, 2005 at 15:39:26, Paul Jacobean Sacral wrote:

>The Nalimov tablebases do not require an active "CDrom Fritz" engine. The code
>to access the Nalimovs is included in the engines themselves which are capable
>to access it during the search, each, and in the Fritz GUI which can use them
>for tbs. positions. What's required is that the tbs. related options of the GUI
>and in the engine options are set, and the tbs. path(s) where the Nalimov tbs.
>are stored on the hd. See F3 and in tools/options/tablebases.
>
>Do you understand that Thompson and Nalimov tables are different formats which
>cannot be used in the same way? It really seems as if you are confusing them.
>The Thompsons have indeed been distributed on 3 and later on 4 CD ROMs. I know
>that they require specific engines to use them in CB. programs.

No they don't. Fritz 5.32 accesses them all the time.
You just show the correct Path.

 But they cannot
>be accessed by engines during the search!
Of course they can I use them all the time.

 Btw. some of the tables which were
>distributed, had errors.

No!
Ask Thompson or Nalibov!

>
>If you read "tablebases" in CCC, this usually means the Nalimov tbs.
>
>More information about this:
>
>http://www.aarontay.per.sg/Winboard/egtb.html#[A.2]
>
>Yours truly Paul J. Sacral



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