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Subject: Re: .tbs files? sorry, I was wrong

Author: Michel Langeveld

Date: 23:42:21 12/30/99

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On December 31, 1999 at 00:29:46, Pete Galati wrote:

>On December 30, 1999 at 23:55:43, David L. Wyatt wrote:
>
>>I know what tablebase files are, but these particular files are extremely small
>>and in a separate directory from the other .emd tablebase files. Just curious as
>>to what the use of the .tbs files is, since it's not in crafty.doc anywhere
>>
>>Dave
>
>I'm sorry, I've recklessly missimformed you, I don't know what those files are,
>they're _not_ tablebases though, this is part of the contents of one of them:
>
>wtm: Draws:              330177
>wtm: Mate in  19:            16
>wtm: Mate in  18:          1910
>wtm: Mate in  17:         14296
>wtm: Mate in  16:         31598
>wtm: Mate in  15:         40497
>wtm: Mate in  14:         46044
>wtm: Mate in  13:         45174
>wtm: Mate in  12:         37421
>wtm: Mate in  11:         31838
>wtm: Mate in  10:         23115
>wtm: Mate in   9:         15909
>wtm: Mate in   8:         10972
>wtm: Mate in   7:          7254
>wtm: Mate in   6:          4819
>wtm: Mate in   5:          4242
>wtm: Mate in   4:          2343
>wtm: Mate in   3:          2017
>wtm: Mate in   2:           326
>wtm: Mate in   1:           824
>
>etc....... (not a tablebase I'd say)
>
>Bob seems to be on a holiday, hopefully someone else will speak up.
>
>Pete

It's just a summary of a particulair endgame tablebase.
The files are not needed by crafty. It's just made for humans to look at a
particulair endgame. You can see how many positions gives mate in 1, mate in 2,
etc.



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