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Subject: Re: Shredder 9 Classic UCI can access tablebases in a server online!

Author: Uri Blass

Date: 14:43:27 02/05/05

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On February 05, 2005 at 16:47:45, Eran Karu wrote:

>In the interview with Stefan Meyer-Kahlen, the programmer of Shredder, that
>comes from the Arena website, but the interview is in German.
>
>He was asked what was different between Shredder 8 and Shredder 9. He said that
>the new engine of Shredder 9 evaluates defense resources with king attacks
>better; this applies both sides of a game. Of course, Shredder 9 plays better
>middlegames thru endgames. What impresses me the most is that a new feature of
>Shredder  9 Classic UCI that enables it to access tablebases of up to six pieces
>in a server online! A very interesting idea.

I thought about that idea in the past but unfortunately unlike stefan I have not
the knowledge to write a program that access sites online and get the
information.

I even do not know to write a program in C or C++ that only connect the computer
to a specific site.

Uri



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