Author: Mike Hood
Date: 03:07:57 01/28/04
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On January 28, 2004 at 01:56:51, Lex Loep wrote: >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 I've known about this service for a while. It's very useful for people with limited disk space who want to analyse a given position. Not so useful for me at the moment, because allocating 7 GB to tablebases isn't a problem. But if the service offered access to every available 6-piece tablebase as well I'd definitely use it. I can't allocate 1.5 Terabyte to tablebases any time soon... but can Lokasoft?
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