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Subject: No problems for me

Author: Shep

Date: 00:21:05 09/23/99

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On September 23, 1999 at 01:00:12, Pete Galati wrote:

>On September 22, 1999 at 21:51:00, Helge Gabert wrote:
>
>>WCrafty 16.18 (Winboard) doesn't seem to recognize the compressed Nalimov
>>tablebases (*.emd).  However, it works fine with the uncompressed (*.nbb/nbw)
>>files.  Is there some magic trick to make it work?  Thanks for any suggestions.
>
>I hadn't been using tablebases for a long time (I don't have the space) but I
>decided to use the 3 pc tablebases and Crafty v16.18 would only see some of
>them.  I did not try decompressing them though, I just got rid of them because I
>didn't want to take the time to figure out what was going wrong.  It could be
>(?) that Crafty v16.17 does not have this problem.
>
>As far as I know I did everything right, but I should have checked the other
>programs to see if they could see all of the tablebases but I didn't, sorry.

I tried 16.18 yesterday and did not notice anything. Running my usual test
positions, TBs like KPPKP or KQK or KNBK were accessed properly (compressed
format). I didn't verify if each and every one of the 5-man set worked, but at
least I don't see any obvious problem with TB access.

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Shep




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