Protector and Nalimov TB

[Xaake]

Hello!

I am trying to get Protector to work with Tablebases but fail (I think at least) to get it to work. I have the Protector in a directory together with the tablebases, but will they load automatically, which names should the tablebase folders have?

I have tried to use the names tb/3-4-5 and 3-4-5 directly but to no avail.

I am using Arena as interface and fail to find any UCI option where I can specify where to look for the tablebases.

Does someone know how to do this?

[Jim Walker]

Click on "Engines" then "Manage" and then click on "UCI". There is a box for the tablebase path and you can also set the amout of hash memory for the tbs.
Jim

[Carlos777]

Hi Rickard,

In Arena, go to Engines > Manage > UCI and there is the option "Common endgame tablebases (Nalimov) path", check it and select the location of the tablebases (I have all of them in only one folder).

I hope it helps.

Regards,
Carlos

Edit: Jim beat me to it.

[Edmund]

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#ifdef INCLUDE_TABLEBASE_ACCESS
      if (strcmp(name, "NalimovPath") == 0)
      {
         initializeTablebase(value);

         return TRUE;
      }

      if (strcmp(name, "NalimovCache") == 0)
      {
         const int cacheSize = atoi(value);

         setTablebaseCacheSize(cacheSize);

         return TRUE;
      }
#endif

From the GUI parsing code of Protector 1.3.3. So either you have a version that wasn't compiled with the INCLUDE_TABLEBASE_ACCESS flag or the standard commands should work.

[Aser Huerga]

I'm testing Protector 1.3.3 with the configuration Carlos and James had point, and it uses TBs without problems.

Regards.

[Xaake]

Yes, thanks to you all, I hadn't seen the common UCI options in Arena, I was searching trough engine specific settings. I get it to work now.

Once again thanks, now Protector will hopefully manage to score a little better when I do engine to engine tournaments!