Author: Pete Galati
Date: 10:44:36 09/23/99
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On September 23, 1999 at 13:32:35, James T. Walker wrote: >On September 23, 1999 at 10:50:01, Pete Galati wrote: > >>On September 23, 1999 at 10:27:21, Bernhard Bauer wrote: >> >>>On September 23, 1999 at 10:05:05, Helge Gabert wrote: >>> >>>>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. >>> >>>I did the same. Generating 4-man tb's, compress them and use them. >>>Without any problems. >>>May be you did something very special. >>>It would be helpfull, if you could say a little more. >>>What system do you use? >>>What command do you give to crafty? >>> >>>Kind regards >>>Bernhard >> >>I don't have the impression that anybody here is checking Crafty itself to make >>sure that Crafty sees these tablebases. >> >>Pete > >Hello Pete, >Every time I add a new tablebase file I check it with Crafty to make sure it's >working OK. As far as I can tell they are all working fine. I have not had any >problems. How do you deternime if it's working or not?? >Jim Walker Personally I know of no way to check to see if they're working, I just check to see if Crafty recognises that they're there. Maybe there's a better way to do it, I don't know. I just had the odd impression that people were loading up with tablebases and starting Crafty up in Winboard and assuming that they were all working, maybe I'm wrong, maybe they're paying more attention than that. Pete
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