Manual de Fritz 15 2015 | Page 272

272 Fritz 15 Help Select the prefered Format and set the path. Note that you can put the tablebase files into different directories, partitions or even different hard disks on your computer. Use the "Browse" button to locate the directories. The cache memory is used to speed up access to the tablebases during a game. A value between one and eight MB is advisable. Access to the tablebases improves the playing strength of the program in the endgame considerably. Whenever it hits on one of the five-piece endings in the search, it can stop and get a completely accurate assessment of the position from the tablebases. It does not have to generate thousands of follow-up positions. But, accessing the tablebases is quite slow (in comparison to the move generation and evaluation). You can speed things up by copying the tablebases onto your hard disk. Use the endgame database to practice the endings or to study difficult positions. Not even the greatest experts in the world can give you more reliable analytical help. Endgame Turbo ChessBase has a product, the Endgame Turbo, which consists of five DVDs filled with Nalimov Tablebases. © ChessBase 2015