Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 06:25:13 08/20/99
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On August 20, 1999 at 03:27:21, Shep wrote: >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 also "swindle=off" will disable this in current crafty versions as well...
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