Author: Zappa
Date: 11:47:12 12/06/05
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On December 06, 2005 at 14:19:13, Ryan B. wrote: >On December 06, 2005 at 13:16:24, Zappa wrote: > >>On December 06, 2005 at 05:07:25, Daniel Shawul wrote: >> >>>On December 06, 2005 at 04:58:01, Ryan B. wrote: >>> >>>>On December 06, 2005 at 04:41:25, Bernhard Bauer wrote: >>>> >>>>>Hi, >>>>>the use of bitbases looks promising. Gambitfruit makes use of Scorpio bitbases. >>>>>Dieter Buersner uses bitbases in yace too. >>>>>Dieter has more files and they are smaller than the scorpio bitbases. >>>>>Would it be possible for the author of gambitfruit to use the bitbases from >>>>>yace? Is there kind of a standard in bitbases? >>>>>Kind regards >>>>>Bernhard >>>> >>>>I think Danial plans on doing 5 piece bitbases and when they are ready I plan on >>>>supporting them in Gambit Fruit. I hope people notice what Danial has done with >>>>making his bitbases easy to use and other engines start picking them up. The >>>>way I see it maybe some idea I use in Gambit Fruit will be seen by another >>>>programmer and help them in some way but likely if a program is not already >>>>using bitbases it can benefit from the use of Danial's easy to use bitbases. >>>> >>>>Ryan >>> Thanks for the support. I would have used some body else's bitbases myself >>>if i find a free one. Johan Melin (Knight Dreamer) has a similar DLL which can >>>be used by others. But it is not completely free though. >>> >>>For Bernhard: >>> AFAIK yace bitbases are not public. And scorpio bitbases are not larger than >>>yace's. Scorpio takes 18mb, yace takes 21mb, but that is insignificant. >>>For example the compressed bitbases that i have now for 4 pieces are 6mb large. >>>But that hurts speed of the engine. Knight Dreamers bitbases are 1mb in size >>> >>>Engines that i know have bitbases: >>> KnightDreamer,Yace,Kiwi,Delfi,SlowChess,glaurung,GLC >>> >>>best >>>daniel >> >>How does KD manage to get so much smaller? >> >>anthony > > >you mean what type of compression? Well your compressed bitbases are 6MB, but KDs are 1MB . . . so he's doing something right. anthony
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