Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 14:51:28 11/22/05
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On November 22, 2005 at 17:42:54, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >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 ? It does. List and Aristarch both use a DLL to access Nalimov tablebase files. That does not help with GPL projects, but it would be acceptable with LGPL, I imagine. I do not know of any LGPL chess projects, so it's pretty much academic.
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