Author: Harald Faber
Date: 05:31:42 12/27/99
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On December 27, 1999 at 08:17:14, 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 The Thompson TB have an index because they are fix on 4 CDs. The Nalimov TBs are just downloadable files EVERYONE can burn CDs from in individual order. That is the problem.
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