On Thu, Apr 12, 2012 at 4:50 PM, Gavin Flower <gavinflo...@archidevsys.co.nz > wrote:
> On 11/04/12 21:24, Gavin Flower wrote: > > On 11/04/12 19:15, Sidney Cadot wrote: > > Dear all, > > As a hobby project, I am toying around with a database containing > about 5 million chess games. On average, these games have about 80 > positions (~ 40 moves by both black and white), which means there are > about 400 million chess positions in there. > > > If you haven't done so already, you should read through the literature on chess and computers. I'm quite a few years out of date, but there's been a lot of research into efficient ways to store and search chess positions, and some of it may have dealt with SQL database structures. -- Mike Nolan
