Author: Charles Milton Ling
Date: 09:05:40 12/26/99
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On December 26, 1999 at 11:45:54, Steve Lopez wrote: >On December 26, 1999 at 04:22:00, Charles Milton Ling wrote: > >>Has anybody been able to do this? I have had no success at all. The tips I >>have received so far (from German newsgroups and from ChessBase [!]) do not >>work. I'll be getting a big hard disk one of these days, but I don't have room >>for the tablebases at present... >>Thank you for any help! >>Charley > >In the \Windows folder on your hard drive is a file called ChssBase.ini -- >you'll need to edit this file to show the path to your CD drive. It's in a >section called [Tablebase] > >For example, if your CD drive is drive D:, your path should look like this: > >[Tablebase] >Path=D: > >PLEASE NOTE: there is NO backslash after the colon in the path! If you put a >backslash there, the Fritz Turbo Endgames won't be found by the program. > >Don't worry about editing the file -- just use My Computer (on the Windows >desktop) to go into your Windows folder, double-click on the file ChssBase.ini, >and Notepad will open to show you the contents of the file. Edit the file just >like you're in a word processor, and remember to use "Save" in Notepad's File >menu when you're finished. > >-- Steve Lopez > >The Chess Kamikaze Home Page: http://www.geocities.com/ludekdudek/ >The Chess Kamikaze Club: http://clubs.yahoo.com/clubs/chesskamikazes Thank you, Steve! It works beautifully with the 1st of the 4 CDs; it only takes a second or two to show the result of the position. However, CDs 2 - 4 are not recognized... I suppose those really have to be put on the hard disk? Charley
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