Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 04:06:49 12/27/99
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On December 27, 1999 at 06:27:39, Harald Faber wrote: >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. How about an index like in the Thompson tablebases? The program would ask to insert the CD #X, as it has been done before. Enrique
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