Author: Helge Gabert
Date: 07:05:05 09/23/99
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On September 23, 1999 at 03:21:05, Shep wrote: >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. > >--- >Shep So what did you do? Copy all .emd files into a directory, leave them *as is* (i.e, uncompressed), and run Crafty with command line option /tbpath=directory? If so, I'm at a loss, because that doesn't seem to work.
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