Author: Enrique Irazoqui
Date: 05:17:14 12/27/99
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On December 27, 1999 at 07:20:50, Harald Faber wrote: >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. I am not talking about us writing the index. I wouldn't even know how to do it in a way that the program could read it. What I meant to say is that the program should have such an index and ask you to insert the right CD, like Shredder and older CB programs do with Thompson tablebases. Enrique
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