Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 18:00:35 04/26/00
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On April 26, 2000 at 14:56:46, Pete Galati wrote: >On April 26, 2000 at 14:19:28, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>On April 26, 2000 at 13:36:04, John Merlino wrote: >> >>>On April 26, 2000 at 13:30:10, Dann Corbit wrote: >>> >>>>On April 26, 2000 at 13:09:09, John Merlino wrote: >>>>[snip] >>>>>p.s. Crafty uses a different tablebase format, correct? >>>> >>>>That is correct. It is the format invented by Eugene Nalimov >>>> >>>>>If so, why? >>>>It contains more information, is many times smaller, and generally much faster. >>> >>>Are these also in the "public domain" (as it were)? >> >>Apparently. In fact, some organizations are packaging them and selling them. >>IMO, Eugene should receive a royalty of some kind, just out of good will, if >>nothing else. But I suspect that prospect lies along side of the pickle smoke >>and hen's teeth. > >I can't quite place the term "pickle smoke and hen's teeth" in any paticular >Beverly Hillbillies episode, but I would think that Eugene should at the very >least be given credit somewhere in the program for the use of his code and >tablebases (see the Der Bringer program) and not doing so would be "lower than a >snake in a wagon rutt" (thanks Jed) > >Pete Deep Junior's documentation refers to the Nalimov-tablebases. Dave
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