Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 10:58:10 02/11/03
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On February 11, 2003 at 11:57:23, Michel Langeveld wrote: >Good work.... one problem? >What to do if an engine is created by two authors? Rats. I guess I need to make it many to many. Screws up the simplicity of the model, but that is the right model. >I use WBEC Tournament for winboard tournament and miss in this program the >follow fields: >* Information (some engines have problems with starting, same when it gets >mated) >* Book aware (does it support a book? sdbc doesn't curerntly) >* TB aware (does it understand tablebases, and yes what? like Namilove, >Edwards?) >* Analysis (yes / no ) >* Draw detection These are all good ideas. >You don't need it for openingbooks ... but if you use such a model (XML?)... >then other programs can use it also. I think a uniform repository for information might be very helpful for chess engine writers and also for chess engine operations (Winboard/Arena/Tournament managers/etc.) If the chess engines could look to a database for the location of the EGTB files, and the amount of memory to hash them, etc. it would simplify the engine design. It may also be possible to create a uniform API to define all of these things and even provide a sample instance to simplify engine creation and make it much less problematic.
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