"Anders Thulin" wrote in message
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Ruud wrote:
There is a ftp nalimov tablebase. Can anyone tell me how to put this to
use?
Is it meant for downloading?

Download, and configure your Nalimov-enabled chess engine to know
where the files have been placed. (You can also get many of the
files on DVD -- ChessBase sells them, and I believe there are
other sources as well.)

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Anders Thulin ath*algonet.se http://www.algonet.se/~ath

Yes, I've tried it that way, but then it doesn't work.
I've got the 3-4 men tablebase already on my software-disk, so I
experimented with it (I wanted to try the 3-4-5tbs, but it's 6 Gb orso)
When I try it with the 3-4 men tbs from the server (because it's smaller,
because of the download-time), my software doesn't pick up on it (where it
dóes work with the 3-4tbs from my own disc), even when I add the TBCheck and
TBGen, which are in the 3-4tbs-folder.
I'm aware that perhaps it won't work , because it's commercial. But I don't
understand why this ftp-server excists then.
Also, I was wondering if there's an online data/tablebase where you can
check endgame-positions that are already known in the tbs-collection (for
correspondence chess).