Computer Chess Club Archives


Search

Terms

Messages

Subject: Re: Real-time position in database.

Author: pavel

Date: 19:17:28 01/31/03

Go up one level in this thread


On January 31, 2003 at 21:58:54, Robert Pawlak wrote:

>On January 31, 2003 at 20:37:23, pavel wrote:
>
>>I wonder if there is any database software that will tell you the position of
>>the board in the database, as you update the position, in real-time.
>>
>>With Chessbase Database (or most others that I have seen) you have to search for
>>the position in the database with every new move, manually.
>>With a database of 5-6 million games, this task takes a lot of time.
>>
>
>If you build a tree for your reference database first, it will show you the
>number of games in your base with that position. It will do this in real time,
>just enable the tree display pane in the board window (CB8)
>
>But there are two problems. With finite computer resources, it will be a hard
>task to build a tree from 6 million games. Also, you need to keep switching the
>reference database, and building trees if you want to use it with an arbitary
>database.
>
>You can also do this in Chess Assistant. I have not tried it with 6 million
>games, but it is quite fast with 2 million, and it does not require that you
>build the tree ahead of time. It is amazingly fast.
>
>Bob

Thanks alot Bob!
That's exactly what I wanted to know.

Cheers,
pavs



This page took 0 seconds to execute

Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700

Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.