Have you tried to set successfully the (Nalimov) Tablebase path under the GUI? When I do, it makes some modern engines to crash when loading them (such as Hiarcs 8Bareev, Zap!Chess). Not only this, this makes these engines crash in the newer Fritz 11, 12, 13 and 14 GUIs as well (although setting the TB path in the newer GUIs doesn't trigger this).
Can anyone who still have any of these older GUIs (Fritz 7, 8 or 9) test this out? I'm puzzled as to why this happens.
Question for those who still use Fritz 7, 8 or 9 under Windows 11.
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Juan P. Naar
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Re: Question for those who still use Fritz 7, 8 or 9 under Windows 11.
There was an .dll update for Fritz 8, fixes some UCI issues, dunno if it helps for Tablebase path:
https://sjeng.org/ds/cb.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20060303044 ... ad/uci.zip
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Srdja
PS: special characters in path can be one reason.
https://sjeng.org/ds/cb.html
https://web.archive.org/web/20060303044 ... ad/uci.zip
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Srdja
PS: special characters in path can be one reason.
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Juan P. Naar
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Re: Question for those who still use Fritz 7, 8 or 9 under Windows 11.
Hello, just wanted to let you know that I found a fix for this.
The crashes were caused because the old .eng files were accessing the folder with 6men Nalimov EGTBs, which are not supported by some. I found the culprit: there's a very sneaky file called "Chssbase.ini" located in C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows, which causes the crash if a 6men Nalimov EGTB folder is selected in the TB path of the old Fritz GUI.
I solved this by setting a 5men folder path in the old GUI, and a 6men folder path in the new GUI. Now every engine searches the TBs without any issue.
The crashes were caused because the old .eng files were accessing the folder with 6men Nalimov EGTBs, which are not supported by some. I found the culprit: there's a very sneaky file called "Chssbase.ini" located in C:\Users\XXX\AppData\Local\VirtualStore\Windows, which causes the crash if a 6men Nalimov EGTB folder is selected in the TB path of the old Fritz GUI.
I solved this by setting a 5men folder path in the old GUI, and a 6men folder path in the new GUI. Now every engine searches the TBs without any issue.