Author: Nicholas Cooper
Date: 23:52:44 06/22/99
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On June 22, 1999 at 23:41:31, Terry Ripple wrote: >It was Posted that you don`t need to install endgame tablebases on your hardrive >to have access to the 4 and 5 piece tablebases if you leave the CD in the drive >and it will automatically access them from your CD when a endgame position >should arise that is on the CD. > >My question is how many of the 4 and 5 piece tablebases do you have access to by >just using the CD when playing a game? Do you get everything? > >Plus, information says to add as much Cache as you can afford! I have only 64MB >of Ram on my system, so what amount of Cache is good, as the default is 2MB. > >Thankyou for any information that you may share, >Best regards, >Terry Terry, According to the Chessbase website, all of the four piece endgames and the following five piece endgames are included on the CD: KPP-KP, KRP-KR, KBP-KB, KRB-KR, KRN-KR. If you want more 5-piece tablebases than this, you'll have to generate them yourself (which requires LOTS of time and RAM) or download them, from Crafty's ftp site, for example. However, note that if you choose to do this, all of the tablebases must be copied onto the hard drive to take advantage of the new ones and the full 5-piece set takes up about 9 GB(!!?) (from memory) of hard drive space, even when compressed (Hiracs 7.32 can use these compressed tablebases). Furthermore, the tablebase PATH must be changed to point to the new location on the hard drive. For a good explanation and description of all this, I refer you to Steve Lopez's excellent article "Tablebases in Hiracs 7.32" at: http://chessbaseusa.com/T-NOTES/062799.htm (there's lots of other interesting and useful information to be found in the other T-NOTES, too!). As for Cache size, I admit my ignorance and defer to someone else who knows more. Hope this helps, Nick Cooper
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