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Subject: Re: The ' Mint ' Winboard-engine available for download!

Author: Chrille

Date: 00:05:25 07/05/00

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On July 05, 2000 at 01:45:44, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On July 04, 2000 at 21:54:44, Pete Galati wrote:
>
>>Don't try to cheat and take back moves.  It messed things real bad when I tried
>>to cheat.
>
>Well, I _never_ try to cheat and take back moves ;o)).

Yes I'm glad to see my anti-cheater function is
working properly ;)

>>Chrille, can we add more lines to the opening book file to tailor it to an
>>opening we like, or is there a restriction to the amount of variations in that
>>file?
>
>You could try using the SSEChess book. I understand that Mint is capable of
>using it, even though I haven't tried it myself. My SSEChess book is about
>1.05Mb, which should be more than sufficient to squash chess patzers like us.
>Otherwise, just add lines by hand.

You can use SSEChess books, in fact I stole the current one from SSEChess
(even though I've modified it). But there's a limit to how many lines it
will read, let me check ... Its 2000 lines. For some reason .... That makes
maybe 100kb a limit?! This limit must be a remnant from days of old, I'll
patch it up for the next version.

Oh, and yes it's quite possible to add lines by hand.

>I'll try to challenge Mint for a game of chess when I get some spare time,
>but I fear I'll end up losing miserably.

Yes, unfortunately this version is so strong most people have a tough time
against it. I should add some dumbening mode. But I'm not so sure people
even play engines themselves these days?

>Best wishes...
>Mogens
>
>PS: BTW, nice website.

Thanks!

Have a nice day everyone.
Btw, the Mint page had over 200 hits yesterday! Wow!

- Christian Söderström



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