Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 18:15:04 03/03/06
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On March 03, 2006 at 19:13:45, Mark Boylan wrote: >On March 03, 2006 at 18:20:24, Dann Corbit wrote: > >>>for engines. >> >>Just use an API. >> >>It will be far faster and better than a custom formet. >>Also, all the bugs would be removed. >>It would be more flexible and basically better in every conceivable way. >> >>Not using SQL is definitely the wrong approach. > > >I'm an old database programmer. I love SQL. I use it every day. But the reason I >started writing a chess engine is because flipping bits is fun. I'd hate to give >up some of that fun to a database server. It would feel too much like my day job > :p I have seen a half dozen book formats where the chess program author wrote (an often buggy and usually inefficient) database to store the opening book. Sometimes it is a flatfile which is sequentially scanned. We're not just reinventing the wheel. We're ignoring the free pile of Pirelli P3s and chipping a lumpy wheel out of granite.
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