There is a ftp nalimov tablebase. Can anyone tell me how to put this to use?
Is it meant for downloading? I don't think so, because it doesn't seem to
work that way. But can one consult this ftp-information, if needed?
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/

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

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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.)

--
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).

Ruud wrote:

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.

What software is this you are talking about?

The only thing I can think of is that the file *may* be named differently
on the FTP-server. You have ensured that the download went OK? Either use TBCheck
or MD5sum -- the md5 data is also on the FTP site.

I'm using Fritz -- I have no problem using either the files that come from
ChessBase, or files downloaded from the Crafty FTP site.

I'm aware that perhaps it won't work , because it's commercial. But I don't
understand why this ftp-server excists then.

Because that's where Eugene Nalimov releases the files. Or was ... I'm not sure
what the status is today.

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

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Ruud wrote:

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.

What software is this you are talking about?

The only thing I can think of is that the file *may* be named
differently
on the FTP-server. You have ensured that the download went OK? Either use
TBCheck
or MD5sum -- the md5 data is also on the FTP site.

I'm using Fritz -- I have no problem using either the files that come
from
ChessBase, or files downloaded from the Crafty FTP site.

I'm aware that perhaps it won't work , because it's commercial. But I
don't understand why this ftp-server excists then.

Because that's where Eugene Nalimov releases the files. Or was ... I'm
not sure
what the status is today.

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

Well, I can't get it to work, unfortunately. The only thing I can think of
is, that it may have something to do with the windows version I'm using
(x64bit).
I use Shredder9/Fritz8, so it should have been allright, but it's not.
It would have been nice , though.
Thanks for the effort.