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Subject: Re: Tablebases on the internet...

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 22:56:51 01/27/04

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On January 27, 2004 at 16:49:59, Brian Thomas wrote:

>In looking at the sizes of the tablebases (outpacing the growth of the average
>hard drive), it seems the biggest issues are:
>1) Building them.
>2) Making them accessible.
>
>It would be far from a speedy solution, but has anyone done feasibility tests on
>using web services or SOAP to query the database over the internet?  For Mr.
>Hyatt, Mr. Theron, Gian-Carlo, et.al., do you see this type of "online
>knowledge" being of any use in the future, or would latency just make any
>benefit moot?

The webservice already exist for several years.
See: http://www.lokasoft.nl/tbweb.htm
Accessable through soap:  http://www.lokasoft.nl/tbapi.htm

Searching from whitin the tree is not feasable but from the
root might be an option. Especially from devices as phones
and PDA's

Lex

>
>Brian



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