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Subject: about endgame database : Konoval, Nalimov, bitbase ... and GNU

Author: Vincent Lejeune

Date: 14:42:54 11/22/05


sometimes ago, I read that Toga couldn't use the Nalimov code in his sources
because GNU doesn't accept to have not GNU source as part of it ...

So an idea : "why doesn't exist a separate module from engine who can read multi
format end-game -databaseS ???" , a kind of DLL like executable. The engine call
the module when there's < 8 pieces (or 7 ?) in the search and get the score from
databaseS ( when Nalimov, Yakov Konoval, De Koning?, ...  is present [mate in X,
mated in X, draw], when bitbase is present [win, draw, lost])

What the DLL must do :
1) initialization with given directories : look for all know formats and
transfert the list to the engine.
2) be able to read all the formats and give the score from EGTB.


Why such a module doesn't exist yet ?



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