Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 15:55:58 11/22/05
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On November 22, 2005 at 17:59:32, Vincent Lejeune wrote: >On November 22, 2005 at 17:56:37, Vincent Lejeune wrote: > >>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 ... > >Dieter Buerssner already use 2 formats, I think, (Nalimov and Bitbase), may be >it's the best one to make a first try (with only 2 formats) It requires different routines to read the two different formats. Daniel Shawul has recently produced a kit for interfacing his bitbase files. >More, Yakov Konoval already stated here he's open to give the access code to his >database (7 pieces) If licensed LGPL, it might make a nice standard way to get access. >>>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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