toga

[hawkeye]

do all the togas have it so that the engine looks on c drive for the bit bases? i was curious because i was told that 1.4.1 se does.

[Michael Sherwin]

You should ask this in the general forum. Most of the users that would know the answer to your question, read there. Toga has many versions by many authors and unless they all read here and respond, you will not get an answer.

I only replied like this so someone can take pleasure in proving me wrong.

[Dann Corbit]

The answer to your question is "No." since some versions of Toga do not even have bitbase files.

[Michael Sherwin]

The answer to your question is "No." since some versions of Toga do not even have bitbase files.

I just assumed that Steve meant, 'that of the Toga versions that do have bitbases', so that he might find a version that does it different. The reason I assume that he ask in the first place is because his bitbases are on a different drive. But, I could just be wrong about all my assumptions.

[Eelco de Groot]

do all the togas have it so that the engine looks on c drive for the bit bases? i was curious because i was told that 1.4.1 se does.

Hello Steve,

The path to the bitbase files is a UCI parameter so it can be changed by the user. It depends on the interface but for instance in Chessbase, I have to translate from my Dutch version, it should be found by following Engine -> Change main engine -> (choose Toga from the menu) -> Engine parameter(s) -> Bitbase path.

On my computer, that is if I do not forget to enter this correctly, bitbase path is D:\egbb5\egbb\ The default is indeed usually on C: but if there is nothing there the bitbases of course do not function.

All the 3.1.2SE Togas like Dann said are based on an older Toga (Toga II 1.3.1) that did not use bitbases, there are also some Toga CMLX versions (betas) made by Teemu Pudas that can play Chess960 but unfortunately there the bitbases do not function, for as yet to me mysterious reasons. Most of the others should be able to use bitbases when the path is visible in the parameters.

Make sure the egbbdll.dll is located in the same folder as the bitbases themselves, and make sure with some testposions that the bitbases actually function. They do not give much extra strength, it also depends on how fast your diskdrive or USB-pendrive is but Toga also functions well without bitbases

Hope this answers some questions,
Regards, Eelco

[Denis P. Mendoza]

do all the togas have it so that the engine looks on c drive for the bit bases? i was curious because i was told that 1.4.1 se does.

Steve,

Adding to what Eelco said, all of the egbb-enabled Toga engines released have bitbases path set (on default) at 'c:/egbb/'. Just edit the bitbase folder path in the UCI-engine configuration if needed. The default cache size is 16mb and the latest egbbdll.dll is egbbprobe 3.1. It will register 'Egbbs loaded !' in console mode (as an example) when everything is set correctly.

[hawkeye]

thanks