CCRL Discussion Board

Graham Banks

The latest CCRL update

I am highly appreciative and thankful to your efforts for regular updates.

thanks.

H.G.Muller: If GUIs support tablebase probing (I do not know anything specifically about Arena, so I am talking hypothetically) they can do it only to bypass the engine in cases where the current board position is actually inside the tablebase. Your thinking is in-line with the answer of Micheal of ...

H.G.Muller:

Thanks for reply.

Redpawn:

Could you tell me where I can find more about what Glaurung generates as end game tablebases.

Somewhere in this forum only there is a thread having this details.

As Toga-II and its derivatives uses scorpio bitbase, while Glaurung generates its own. But, is it possible that these both engine can use Nalimove EGTB through GUI like Arena?

I have downloaded 6 MEN TBs GENERATOR from the link above.

1) What is the command to generate complete 3-4-5 table base?
2) what is the command to generate complete 6 men table base?

Thanks!

To generate a summary page of EGTB resources, please provide following information for various kinds od EGTBs and other related utilities as under: EGTB Type: 3-4-5-men Short Description: Nalimov tablebases Download links: 1) ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/TB/ (download : yes) 2) http://olympusches...

While using Arena GUI for engine-to-engine matches, 1 out of 10 keeps adjudicating for "Engine Protocol Error : Best move sent without stop command". Due to this winning engine looses the game. This happens quite often and in many engines. Is it related to chess engine or it is a Arena bug...

Shaun Brewer

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Fabien Letouzey, Thomas Gaksch and Norman Schmidt: I have got Toga-II 1.45betac from superchessengine website, and really fallen for it. I really like the playing strength and style. At this moment Toga-II is the best and strongest FREE chess engine available. Furthermore I would like to say I was t...