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Hi there!

WildCat 6, that was participated at CCT blitz 2005 is available for download at www.igorkorshunov.narod.ru/WildCat/
Seems it is improved a little at longer controls.

Best wishes,
Igor

Thanks Igor

Regards, Graham.

Hi Igor,

Thank you for this release.

WildCat 6.0 will play in the ACCC 1st edition, League Karpov

BUT, I'm unable to download both book files. I got a CRC error.

Anyone who succeeded to download the books ?

Please send it to me here :

aloheac at club-internet.fr

Thanks for all.

Arnaud Loh?ac

Hi Arnaud,

I will email you the Style book, but the email address you posted doesn't seem to work.
Send me an email so I can reply to the correct address.

Regards, Graham.

Graham Banks wrote:Hi Arnaud,

I will email you the Style book, but the email address you posted doesn't seem to work.
Send me an email so I can reply to the correct address.

Regards, Graham.

Replace "at" with @.

I committed the same error, I copied and pasted the address blindly. I don't think Arnaud has received my e-mail.
Now it's your turn.

G?bor

Thanks Gabor,

yes I committed the same error - not replacing "at" with "@"
I'm sending the book to him now, so hopefully I'll have better luck than you did!

Regards, Graham.

Hi,

I wish to thank the "G" Connection (Gabor and Graham) for sending me the requested file !

Best regards.

Arnaud Loh?ac

hi all,
i'm having problems downloading from wildcats site.
could someone mail me the exicutable and style book at
axamate@yahoo.com ?
help appreciated.
regards
mike

Hi Skoony,

check your email box.

Regards.

Arnaud Loh?ac

regards
mike

Hi Igor,

My problem with WildCat is that it accesses the 5man tablebases SO MUCH! I sometimes think it is going to break my hard drive. No other engine I use makes so many tablebase hits.

Otherwise, I like the engine very much. Thank you.

-Norm

Hi Norm!

WildCat uses egtb everywhere possible. And don't store it in hash.
May be this is the problem.

I just have not 5-piece egtb and can't see how WildCat works with it.

Best wishes,
Igor

Norm Pollock wrote:Hi Igor,

My problem with WildCat is that it accesses the 5man tablebases SO MUCH! I sometimes think it is going to break my hard drive. No other engine I use makes so many tablebase hits.

Otherwise, I like the engine very much. Thank you.

-Norm

Hi Norm,

Have you ever tried AnMon?

G?bor

G?bor Szots wrote:

Norm Pollock wrote:Hi Igor,

My problem with WildCat is that it accesses the 5man tablebases SO MUCH! I sometimes think it is going to break my hard drive. No other engine I use makes so many tablebase hits.

Otherwise, I like the engine very much. Thank you.

-Norm

Hi Norm,

Have you ever tried AnMon?

G?bor

Hi Gabor,

AnMon and WildCat both start using the 5-man tbs very early. With 5 minute blitz they start accessing with about 14 pieces on the board. With 2 minute blitz they start accessing with about 10 pieces on the board. I would hate to play a long time control game between AnMon and WildCat because it would kill the hard drive.

What I have now done is limit those 2 engines to 4-man tbs, which I can do if I use their wb versions in the fritz8 gui. I set the ini file tb setting to the folder in my machine that only has the 4-man tbs, and I keep the 5-man tbs in another folder. It seems to work.

Any other engines that are also tb gluttons?

-Norm

Norm Pollock wrote:AnMon and WildCat both start using the 5-man tbs very early. With 5 minute blitz they start accessing with about 14 pieces on the board. With 2 minute blitz they start accessing with about 10 pieces on the board. I would hate to play a long time control game between AnMon and WildCat because it would kill the hard drive.

What I have now done is limit those 2 engines to 4-man tbs, which I can do if I use their wb versions in the fritz8 gui. I set the ini file tb setting to the folder in my machine that only has the 4-man tbs, and I keep the 5-man tbs in another folder. It seems to work.

Any other engines that are also tb gluttons?

-Norm

This is a good idea. I watched several of their games in horror hearing that never ending scratching of the hard disc.

At the moment I can't recall any other killer engines.

No, Pepito is just tearing my HD into pieces. Also Yace.

G?bor

G?bor Szots wrote:

Norm Pollock wrote:AnMon and WildCat both start using the 5-man tbs very early. With 5 minute blitz they start accessing with about 14 pieces on the board. With 2 minute blitz they start accessing with about 10 pieces on the board. I would hate to play a long time control game between AnMon and WildCat because it would kill the hard drive.

What I have now done is limit those 2 engines to 4-man tbs, which I can do if I use their wb versions in the fritz8 gui. I set the ini file tb setting to the folder in my machine that only has the 4-man tbs, and I keep the 5-man tbs in another folder. It seems to work.

Any other engines that are also tb gluttons?

-Norm

This is a good idea. I watched several of their games in horror hearing that never ending scratching of the hard disc.

At the moment I can't recall any other killer engines.

No, Pepito is just tearing my HD into pieces. Also Yace.

G?bor

So this is where I stand relative to this problem. Anmon, Wildcat, Yace and Pepito are now limited to 4-man tbs on my machine. Other tb-ready engines use 5-man tbs.

I do a couple of other things based in part on this problem. I use a "small" 30G second hard drive for the chess engines and tbs. My c: is an 80G. At least if the chess drive goes, I still have my system.

I also backup (to CD) my chess folders other than the tb folders. The tb folders have to backed up separately and they require many CDs for backup.

-Norm

So this is where I stand relative to this problem. Anmon, Wildcat, Yace and Pepito are now limited to 4-man tbs on my machine. Other tb-ready engines use 5-man tbs.

I do a couple of other things based in part on this problem. I use a "small" 30G second hard drive for the chess engines and tbs. My c: is an 80G. At least if the chess drive goes, I still have my system.

I also backup (to CD) my chess folders other than the tb folders. The tb folders have to backed up separately and they require many CDs for backup.

-Norm[/quote]

I have done the same. This separate drive is also a good idea, unfortunately I have only one HD installed. I have also backed up the important things. If my HD ever goes astray I am not going to use 5-man EGTB's any more, at least not all of them, which I do now. There is a new opinion spreading that they are of not much benefit anyway.

G?bor