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Subject: Re: Adding tablebases to Hiarcs 7.32

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 13:38:30 08/03/99

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On August 03, 1999 at 15:15:10, Pete R. wrote:

>Hello, another tablebase question.
>
>Just got my copy of Hiarcs 7.32 yesterday, and I generated the 4-piece Nalimov
>tablebases for it.  I already had the 4-man tablebases for use with Crafty, so I
>probably could have just copied them, but I wasn't sure if it would work.  The
>"normal" tablebase files I use with Crafty have names like kqkr.nbb.emd, while
>the ones for use with Hiarcs 7.32 omit the first dot in the name, e.g.
>kqkrnbb.emd.  Easy enough to rename if the files are in fact identical (of
>course it would have been nice to be able to use the same tablebase files for
>both programs).  There are also .tbs files in the 7.32 generated directory, like
>knkn.tbs.  Not sure if this is just a seed file of some sort that isn't really
>needed, or what.  Anybody know the details on this?

Hello Pete,
If you are using the compressed tablebases with crafty then they are the same as
the ones on the Hiarcs CD and are interchangeable.  In fact you don't need two
copies of the TB's.  You only need to tell both programs where the TB's are
located(Path).  There was no need to generate them since you already had them on
the disk and also with Crafty.  It's much faster to copy them from Dr. Hyatt's
site than to generate the ones you don't have.
Jim Walker



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