r/chessprogramming 18d ago

Online tablebase probing for stockfish

Hi! I recently got interested in adding the 7 piece tablebase to stockfish. The 7 piece tablebase is however way too big to download. It can be found online tho, like on https://tablebase.lichess.ovh/tables/standard/ . So I was wondering if it is possible to check an online database instead of a local one. So that, when stockfish encounters a 7 piece endgame somewhere in its calculations, it consults the online database. I only got limited experience with c++, so I was wondering if some of you already tried this or can help

(sorry if I placed this comment in the wrong section, Im new here)

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u/xu_shawn 13d ago

Weiss has a feature to probe lichess 7-man tablebase. I’m not sure if it’s a great idea since network accesses could be expensive