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Subject: Re: compressing Nalimov's Tablebases

Author: Eugene Nalimov

Date: 22:25:13 06/28/99

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TBS = tablebase summary. A small ASCII (i.e. human readable) file with some
statistics about that particular ending. It's not necessary for chess program at
all, just small by-product of the TB generation. You can sefely delete them.

Eugene

On June 28, 1999 at 23:31:39, James Swafford wrote:

>A quick question about Nalimov's tablebases:
>
>I note three files for each set:
>.nbw = white to move
>.nbb = black to move
>.tbs = ???
>
>When compressing theses tablebases, I assume I should
>execute both:
>
>datacomp e:8192 krk.nbw
>datacomp e:8192 krk.nbb
>
>Do I need to compress .tbs?  These files are only a few kb
>each, but I'm not sure what they are....
>
>If someone could explain it to me I'd appreciate it.
>
>--
>James



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