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Subject: Re: Does Hiarcs7.32 make use of 3 & 4 piece endgames using only CD?

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 10:11:36 06/18/99

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On June 18, 1999 at 12:55:33, Keith Kitson wrote:

>On June 17, 1999 at 23:21:21, Melvin S. Schwartz wrote:
>
>>
>>On June 17, 1999 at 21:55:01, James T. Walker wrote:
>>
>>>On June 17, 1999 at 20:55:33, Terry Ripple wrote:
>>>
>>>>  Will Hiarcs7.32 still make use of the 2,3, and 4 piece Endgame Tablebases if i
>>>>don`t install them on my Harddrive?
>>>>
>>>>  Will it make use of these Endgame Tablebases from the CD with out Installing
>>>>them on harddrive? I hope i`am getting this point across!!
>>>>
>>>>  Thankyou very much for any information,
>>>>  Terry Ripple
>>>
>>>Hello Terry,
>>>Yes I'm sure it will.  When you install the Hiarcs system it creates a file in
>>>windows directory called "CHSSBASE.INI".  If you install your TB's on the hard
>>>disk you have to edit this file and tell Hiarcs where your TB's are located.
>>>The default is your CD ROM drive.
>>
>>Hello Jim,
>>
>>There is an engine for Hiarcs 7.32 called Tablebase 1.0. Do you know what that
>>is to be used for? Is it for the endgame? Does it have to do with the four piece
>>endgame?
>>
>>Mel
>>>Jim Walker
>
>Tablebase 1.0 is a module written to generate endgame tablebases.  Upto 4 piece
>tablebase files are already supplied on the Hiarcs732 cd.  There is the
>opportunity to use this module for 5 piece endgame table generation.  However
>the amount of ram utilised during generation is quite large and there is a
>sizeable increase in disc storage space required to store the larger tablebase
>files.
>
>I would like to generate the 5 piece tables but i do not have enough ram to do
>this.
>
>This is my understanding having read the text based files supplied on the CD.
>
>Keith

Hello Kieth,
No, the Tablebase 1.0 module is the engine used to access the TB's.  The
TBGEN.exe or something like that generates the tablebases.  And the 5 man TB's
take a lot of RAM and a lot of time to generate.  It's better to download them
from a site somewhere.
Jim Walker



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