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[Gordon Robertson]

I'm currently downloading a partial set of 6 man TBs. I will have at most 0.5 Terabyte of space to use, so can't download the full set.

However, maybe I'm underestimating the need for all derivatives before downloading those containing pawns?! For example:

[D]8/8/P7/B3nk2/8/8/P7/K7 w - - 0 1

Here, I've downloaded BPPvsN but I noticed that this caused issues while analysing with Zappa. So I then downloaded QBPvN but I still see issues (Zappa doesn't play a7 and allows a draw).

Rybka handles this ok. I realise that some engines have minimum search prior to using TBs. This defaults to 4 for Zappa. Why is Zappa avoiding a7? The best line stays within my downloaded TBs.

I also plan to start checksumming my downloads for corrupt files, etc. Not yet done.

thanks
Gordon