Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 04:53:17 04/26/00
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On April 26, 2000 at 04:40:15, Roberto Waldteufel wrote: >Hello all, > >Some time ago I wrote a chess program called Rabbit, and after a long period of >inactivity I have started working on it again. At present it does not have >tablebases, and I would like to add this capability to it. I know that Dr >Nalimov's tablebases are available for download from Dr Hyatt's ftp site, but my >main problem is not knowing how to access the data from them. I expect that >source code for this will be in C, which is not the language I use for >programming, so I really need either to understand the precise formula for >looking up a position or else to obtain a compiled version of the access code >that my program could call. My target platform is Windows on a P3/450, so a DLL >would be perfect for this. I wonder if such a DLL exists, and if so where can I >find it? Alternatively, is there public information about the position --> >address mapping of sufficient detail to allow me to program the lookups myself? >Any help would be most welcome. > >Best wishes, > >Roberto Your best bet is to look at his probe code, written in c++. If you are using a compiled language, it ought to be possible to call this stuff from within your program.
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