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Subject: Re: Possible ambiguity ...

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 11:21:21 04/04/03

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On April 04, 2003 at 08:56:49, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On April 04, 2003 at 03:13:04, GuyHaworth wrote:
>
>>
>>Tfy support, but it may be you are supporting something different.
>>
>>
>>I just realised that 'endgame server' could be taken to apply to Rob Hyatt's
>>facility.
>>
>>I was not proposing to replace that.
>>
>>My 'endgame server' is an updatable, autonomous 'agent' running on your PC which
>>interfaces to your chess-engine at runtime.
>>
>>It has the intelligence, both chessic and non-chessic, to manage information
>>across a variety of EGTs ... Nalimov/non-Nalimov, DTM(ate)/non-DTM.
>>
>>Updates to EGT-offerings are 'hidden' behind the runtime interface between
>>chess-engines and the endgame server - the benefit of 'late binding'.
>>
>>g
>
>Yes, I was reffering to a server where all of the Nalimov (probably) endings
>would be stored, and that server could be queried. Sort of like a DNS server or
>whois server. It wouldn't be useful for doing queries within the search (too
>slow). Probably just by the GUI to detect when a game has reached a TB position.
>At least for 6-7 piece endings, this would be useful given their probable size.

I can't imagine what this would do to a search however.  Compare a 15K U320 SCSI
disk to a network connection.  :)



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