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Subject: Re: Junior 5 Tablebase Question

Author: James T. Walker

Date: 14:34:11 02/13/00

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On February 13, 2000 at 14:56:01, Milton Zucker wrote:

>Hi,
>I would appreciate it if someone could answer this question regarding Junior 5.
>In the "load engines" screen there is a box which can be checked to have the
>program access endgame tablebases located on cd.  Is there a way to configure
>the program to look for endgame tablebases on the computer's hard disk drive?  I
>was going to download some tablebases located on the following web location:
>
>ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/
>
>However, once I get them on my hard disk drive, I'm not sure how to tell Junior
>where to find them.  Any information would be greatly appreciated.
>...Milton...

Hello Milton,
The Junior 5 program needs the CD to run the endgame files.  They are not the
Nalimov tablebases.  If you own Junior6 you can run Junior 5 in the Junior 6 GUI
and it will access the Nalimov tablebases from the HD at the root only.  The
same is true for Fritz 5.32/Fritz 6.
Jim Walker



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