🚀 go-pugleaf

RetroBBS NetNews Server

Inspired by RockSolid Light RIP Retro Guy

Article View: gnu.chess
Article #2126

Re: GNU Chess Data Base

#2126
From: Bernd Schatz
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 14:36
33 lines
2120 bytes
Simon Waters wrote:
> 
> Bernd Schatz wrote:
> >
> > is there a gnu chess data base,
> > (something like ChessBase)
> > where i can use a gnu chess programm
> > for analysis ?
> 
> Gnu chess 5 doesn't support analysis mode, so you can't really use it to
> do too much analysis (It can hack out the mate in X problems as well as
> most). Some other free chess programs support analysis mode, and can be
> used with either Tim Mann's various interfaces or other commercial tools
> for analysis.
> 
> I haven't seen free programs quite achieving the levels of integration
> that the commercial programs do.
> 
> www.chesslab.com has a freely accessible database, and relatively strong
> chess program integrated, that can be used for analysis, but it isn't
> like Fritz/Chessbase. Still a handy URL I keep in my bookmarks.

It seems very difficult to write a Chess-Data Base Program.
There are plenty of GNU-Chess-Programs but none Data Base Program.
Are there any Theory, program-fragments, ideas or any other 
things that could help to program a Chess Data Base Program ?

greets
  bernd

-- 
'Support the movement to save the European web and join
Save the Web: http://www.savetheweb.org'
Technical Details
Message-ID: <3A82AEFB.A9247861@web.de>
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!newscore.gigabell.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9005f4a.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail
References: <3A8283B7.B41D0510@web.de> <3A829B80.18193F6E@wretched.demon.co.uk>

Show Full Headers
Complete Article Headers
X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit
X-Google-Thread: 10d71d,7e91c51004665a0f
X-Google-Attributes: gid10d71d,public
X-Google-ArrivalTime: 2001-02-08 06:40:58 PST
Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!supernews.google.com!sn-xit-02!supernews.com!isdnet!newscore.gigabell.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!pd9005f4a.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail
From: Bernd Schatz <bernd.schatz@web.de>
Newsgroups: gnu.chess
Subject: Re: GNU Chess Data Base
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2001 15:36:43 +0100
Lines: 33
Message-ID: <3A82AEFB.A9247861@web.de>
References: <3A8283B7.B41D0510@web.de> <3A829B80.18193F6E@wretched.demon.co.uk>
NNTP-Posting-Host: pd9005f4a.dip.t-dialin.net (217.0.95.74)
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=koi8-r
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 981643249 19472755 217.0.95.74 (16 [63772])
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [de] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.16-SMP i586)
X-Accept-Language: de, en