Author: Lex Loep
Date: 11:58:40 01/28/04
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On January 28, 2004 at 06:07:57, Mike Hood wrote: >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? I have a few 6 man tablesbases on that server but have not hooked them up to the webservice. Don't expect to have the 1.5 T soon. Lex
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