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Subject: Re: what restrictions for computers in CCT5?

Author: scott farrell

Date: 19:22:54 11/29/02

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On November 29, 2002 at 03:55:43, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On November 29, 2002 at 02:50:39, scott farrell wrote:
>
>>Is Robert going to use a nice shiney new quad xeon suped up super PC?
>>
>>Is there a limit on the number of PCs - ie. can you enter a chess program on
>>distributed hardware?
>>
>>Do they have to be PCs at all? Is specialized chess hardware allowed?
>
>AFAIK, everything is allowed, as long as it automatically and doesn't involve a
>human.
>
>The CCT-rules don't forbid the us of DBs (I still like the idea of storing the
>opening book there :) and/or EGTBs. (in fact many (most?) amateurs use EGTBs in
>their engines) But I would ask Eugene for permission to use the EGTB-access code
>in your engine. (not for this tournament specifically, but in general) (he will
>most likely allow it as long as you're not going commercial, but it's fair
>enough to ask :)

I like this idea, I will ask him.

>
>Sargon
>
>PS. How do you access the DB from your program? I fear some M$-specific classes?
>:)
My program is Java - so there is no M$ stuff in there, so I use JDBC to mysql -
which runs under windows/linux or whatever.



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