Author: Shep
Date: 00:27:21 08/20/99
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On August 19, 1999 at 11:52:42, Pete R. wrote: >I was wondering about something like that, but in my situation it *is* doing >tablebase hits, presumably on the knkr set. This occurs with both Hiarcs and That is not a contradiction. It is using the "swindle mode" on the 5-man tablebase it is currently in by simply discarding it from the list of used tablebases, but it is still using the 4-man set (which is reasonable in case it should see a transition from drawn KRKNP to a won KRKP or KRKN situation). >Crafty within the Chessbase interface. I'll try it with "native" Crafty, >perhaps one of my tablebase files is corrupted, or maybe it's something with the >interface. I'm not clear on the tablebase designations now, are the .nbb and >.nbw extentions for which side is on move, or which side has the three men? nbb is for black to move, nbw for white to move. It does not matter which side has which material since this is symmetrical (flip colours and chessboard and the situation is the same). >With white having k+r and black with k+n+p, when it's white's turn it's behaving >as if it needed a krknp set which doesn't exist, but I had assumed knpkr covers >both cases, regardless of which side has which pieces. If you absolutely want to make sure your setup is OK, take an older Crafty (like 16.0 or so) which has no swindle mode. That one should use the TB's the way you expected. The swindle mode might be confusing at first (it confused the heck out of me in Hiarcs because I don't remember reading about it in the docs), but it's a cool feature indeed. --- Shep
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