Author: Harald Faber
Date: 03:27:39 12/27/99
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On December 26, 1999 at 12:05:40, Charles Milton Ling wrote: >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 The problem is that the engine at initialisation searches through all the given paths and saves this information. So if you have the CD#1 in your CD-drive when starting the engine, it will not be able to use/find/know of the other Tbs on your CDs#2-#4. And because the files are free, everyone can copy different files onto the CDs. Let me explain this a bit: if I have 10 CDs (650MB) with the TB files and you have 9 CDs (700MB, absolutely clever bundled), how should the engine know which CD to insert/to ask for? Impossible.
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