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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