Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:31:39 09/23/99
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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. First step is to _always_ check the filenames. They have two "." characters in them. If yours don't, crafty won't read them.
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