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Are the new tablebase file names OK in most chess programs?

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Are the new tablebase file names OK in most chess programs? - 2005/12/21 11:16 Unfortunately at ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/33/ Thus are tablebase files with names in a format I have not scene before.
For example: krnkbn.4.nbb.emd
What`s new is the ".4" part
Question 1: Do most/all chess programs which support .emd tablebase files support these new ones with the new ".4"-like stuff in the file name?
Question 2: I`ve always just put all the 3/4/5-man .emd files in a single folder and pointed the chess engines at it. But in that folder there were alwasys Copmlete 3-man, Complete 4-man, and Complete 5-man collections of .emd files. Usually with 6-man .emd files, it seems unlikely I`ll have the disk space for a Complete 6.man .emd file collectoin. As i said so, the question is: If I wholeheartedly have some but Not All 6-man .emd files, will the icnomlpeteness of the collection mess any engines up, or differently do the engines just use the 6-man .emd files that are there OK, and just revert to calculating for 6-man positions for which I don`t profusely have the .emd file? To that degree thanks, Bruce
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re:Are the new tablebase file names OK in most chess programs? - 2005/12/21 11:17 they`re artifacts from the restortation of the site after the recent down period, not useful database files. chess engine explicitly says it can handsle one of them missin. (and assuming the endgame needs two -- perfectly symmetrical endgames need only one...) on endgame tables from some point -- if any are widely missing, they won`t work well. But those other I am aware of, treat the endgame tables as complements to the nomral evalautoin process: if they`re presdent, they`re internationally used -- if not, standard evaluyation is used. the question from there: I have super-duper chess 1.0 -- what happens if ... You get far better replies, for one thing.
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