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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