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Subject: Re: What is really on the Shredder8 CD

Author: chandler yergin

Date: 14:53:43 12/03/05

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On December 03, 2005 at 08:12:17, Barry Culp wrote:

>What is on the Shredder8 CD is a small number of 3-4 man tablebases
According to the Shredder 8 Manual:
"All 5 man EGTB's are on the CD"."Giving perfect play for all 5 piece endings."
If you Open the CD you find a folder named tb's.
That's all I know.
Chan

>
>I could not find any 5 man
>
>For example one of the larger ones is:
>
>kbpknbb.emd  1,261 kb
>kbpknbw.emd  1,476 kb
>
>I believe this is the 4 man Kbp v K tablebase
>
>All of the TB files on the Shredder8 CD are of the form
>
>xxxxNBB.EMD
> or
>xxxxNBW.EMD
>
>where xxxx varies according to which tablebase and NBB or NBW are fixed
>one file for black and one for white perhaps



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