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Subject: Re: Does anyone have or know of an EGTB spec?

Author: Hristo

Date: 12:18:00 04/20/99

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On April 20, 1999 at 00:19:51, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On April 19, 1999 at 17:07:31, KarinsDad wrote:
>
>>On April 19, 1999 at 16:52:09, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>
>>>On April 19, 1999 at 15:52:49, Eugene Nalimov wrote:
>>>
>>>>On April 19, 1999 at 15:09:23, KarinsDad wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>I looked on the web, through the Crafty source, and also Eugene's endgame
>>>>>tablebase generator code, however, the tablebases seem to be complex enough that
>>>>>I will not be able to quickly sort through code to find out how it works.
>>>>>
>>>>>Does anyone know of a design specification (or at least a semi-thorough writeup)
>>>>>on how the tablebases are set up and used?
>>>>>
>>>>>Thanks,
>>>>>
>>>>>KarinsDad :)
>>>>
>>>>ftp://crafty.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/tbgen.zip contains file
>>>>probe.txt. If that's not sufficient, you can e-mail me directly.
>>>>
>>>>Eugene
>>>
>>>The site cannot be accessed any more, Eugene. :(
>>>
>>>Too bad, I was interested too...
>>>
>>>
>>>    Christophe
>>
>>Christophe,
>>
>>I used the site:
>>
>>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/tbgen.zip
>>
>>to get the Eugene's tablebase code this morning, however, since I wasn't using
>>it to "code up TBs" into my program, it was a little too "how to" and not enough
>>"how does" for me to quickly find out what I wanted (although between it and the
>>Crafty source, there seems to be enough there to add egtbs to a program). So, I
>>guess I'll have to Email Eugene directly.
>>
>>However, this site should allow you to get the files.
>>
>>Good Luck,
>>
>>KarinsDad :)
>
>OK, I got the file. I suppose the FTP site was too busy when I did my first
>attempt... A nightmare wision... Thousands of chess programmers all over the
>world downloading the EGTB files, ready to crush my little program in any
>endgame...
>
>Or maybe I'm just getting paranoid and they were all simply downloading sex
>pictures. As usual.

are there sex pictures on craftys site ? hmm..hm.hm :)))
I go see :))) hm.hm.hm.
LOL

Hristo



>
>
>    Christophe



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