Author: Harald Faber
Date: 04:20:50 12/27/99
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On December 27, 1999 at 07:06:49, Enrique Irazoqui 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 Then you have to edit such an index individually for your personal CD-set. Just re-read my sentences above again. Or let me explan a bit more detailed. Suppose, you have your CD set. On CD#1 you have KRK, KRNK, KRRKR, KQQKQ, KQRKQ. Now I am sure (suppose) that with these TBs you splend CD space, so I save on CD#1 (on my set) KNK, KQBKN, KRRKN, KNNKP, KQNKB and KQNKQ. So the 2 CDs#1 contain different TBs. I have to create my own index and you also have to do so.
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