Author: Mark Young
Date: 09:47:20 06/22/99
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On June 22, 1999 at 09:34:08, Steve Lopez wrote: >On June 22, 1999 at 02:31:54, Ted Sutton wrote: > >> Most of your article dealt with generating more tablebases for the advanced >>player with an enormous amount of HD space. But on a more practical level, how >>would one access the tablebases one copied to the HD? >> Does one follow the procedure you outlined of setting up the position and >>manually changing the engine to Tablebase 1.0? > >This is correct; just make sure that you've edited the file chssbase.ini to >reflect the fact that the tablebases are now on the hard drive. > >>Presumably Hiarcs7.32 does this >>automatically when a tablebase position is reached, though it sounds doubtful to >>me if it can just change engines on the fly. > >When a tablebase position is reached, the Hiarcs engine itself accesses it >without a change of engines (this is why you get the message "Initializing >tablebases" when you load the Hiarcs7.32 engine). I recommended using Tablebase >1.0 for positions you set up yourself because A) I've had better results with it >and B) I *think* (and this is a surmise based on the behavior I've seen -- take >this with a pinch of salt) that the Hiarcs7.32 engine needs a move or two >"warning" before accessing the tablebases -- in other words, the tablebases >didn't appear to be accessed when I set up a tablebased position and used >Hiarcs7.32 for analysis of it, but when I created a position a move sooner (in >which a tablebased position was reached after an obvious capture), the >Hiarcs7.32 engine accessed the tablebases with no problem. I have not seen this happen yet, as I have added more tablebase, I test them by setting up the position with h7.32. I have not seen this problem. It has always worked with H7.32 as the engine. (setup the position then hit watch) The Tablebase 1.0 >engine *always* accessed the tablebases when I set up a position that I knew was >in one of the tablebases. > >Of course, all of this could easily be due to my own stupidity or some sort of >hardware problem so, as I said, take this with a pinch of salt.
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