Author: Dieter Buerssner
Date: 16:19:54 06/17/04
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On June 17, 2004 at 18:43:19, Dann Corbit wrote: >...And is there any public specification for the Yace or Patzer bitbase files For Yace - no. In principle they are rather simple, however. Using an indexing scheme very similar to Nalimov's, but without the "unblockable check" tricks. Stuffing 8 (for W/D tables) or 5 (for W/D/L tables) positions in one byte. If I found time, I could document it. >...And are other programs allowed to use them? For Yace bitbases - sure. But without documentation or code, they will be useless. >Obviously, it would not be too hard to make them yourself by scanning Eugene's >files and throwing away everything but the status. Indeed. Regards, Dieter
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