Author: Vincent Lejeune
Date: 14:56:37 11/22/05
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On November 22, 2005 at 17:51:28, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. 1 point is to read mutiple formats ... > >That does not help with GPL projects, but it would be acceptable with LGPL, I >imagine. 1 other point is to help GNU project (as TOGAII) to read EGTB by calling not GNU modules. > >I do not know of any LGPL chess projects, so it's pretty much academic.
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