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Subject: Re: Nimzo even dumber-K and R vs. K !

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 08:08:46 11/20/99

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On November 19, 1999 at 12:09:08, eric guttenberg wrote:

>Hello Jim,
>
>Maybe you can help me here or maybe you won't know the answer because
>you don't own Nimzo 7.32, but I am a little confused here.
>Does not the CD contain the tablebases so that if the CD is in the
>drive the program will have access to them anyway? I have verified
>that for many endings(KRP v KR, KRN v KR, KRB v KR etc.) this appears so
>and Nimzo clearly plays from a tablebase if the CD is in...but
>not for the KNB vK or KBB V K or KR v K endings. Are there tablebases
>not available directly from the CD that can be loaded during the
>installation?
>
>
>eric

Hello Eric,
You are right of course, I don't know because I don't own Nimzo 7.32.  But even
Hiarcs 7.32 comes with some tablebases but not all.  So you must make sure the
tablebases are on the CD ROM.  If the ones your mention are on the CD ROM then
I don't know why they don't work.  If they are not on the CD ROM(That would be
really stupid) then I guess you will have to find them somewhere else and load
them on your hard disk so Nimzo 7.32 can find them.  There are over 6 gigabytes
of tablebases for 3/4/5 men so I'm sure they are not all on the CD ROM but you
would think if Nimzo 7.32 cannot do a simple KRK mate then surely it would be on
the CD ROM!
Jim Walker



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