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Enter the path of the folder where the Syzygy tablebases are stored in the "GUI" and "
Engine " tabs. Clicking on the button with the three dots activates the standard
Windows dialog to select the folder. Click OK to confirm the settings, and the program
will now use the information in the tablebases.
You can check whether the access is working by looking at the output of a chess
engine.
In this example you can see entries "tb= xxx", which show how often the Houdini
chess engine is accessing the endgame tablebases. A big advantage of the Syzygy
Endgame Tablebases is that they are much smaller. The 6-man Syzygy tablebases
need 150 GB disc space, whereas the Nalimov tablebases need more than 1 TB.
The Syzygy Endgame Tablebases pay attention to the 50 move stalemate rule. If
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