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Subject: Re: How do you copy this position into CM9K?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 15:52:25 09/06/02

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On September 06, 2002 at 17:12:44, Paul wrote:

>On September 06, 2002 at 15:58:07, John Merlino wrote:
>
>>Those are all of the 3 and 4 piece files. Additionally, on CD 2, there are many
>>5 piece files as well, that you can copy directly into the EGDB folder where you
>>found the 3 and 4 piece files. These are the most commonly useful 5 piece files,
>>and are part of the Complete installation option.
>>
>>A complete set of 3, 4 and 5 man files in the de Koning format is about 1.6 GB
>>smaller than in the Nalimov format.
>>
>>jm
>
>John, are you (Ubi Soft) planning to make the EGDB specs/interface public, so
>that other engines (like mine) will be able to use them directly (ala the
>Nalimov ones)?
>
>Mine is not a winboard engine, so I can't use them via the built in winboard
>interface. Of course making my engine winboard compatible would give other
>benefits, but I'm very interested in the EGDB details anyway.
>
>Paul

There are no plans at this time to make the de Koning format publicly available.
Johan owns the copyright on this format and the code, and we are currently using
them with his permission.

jm



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