Author: Edward Seid
Date: 02:37:59 05/12/01
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On May 12, 2001 at 01:58:54, Chessfun wrote: >ChessTiger 14.0 using ct.tbk engine book will not play the kings gambit. >The only engine book that plays 2. f4 the kings Gambit is the gambit.tbk >available to registered users of RebelTiger II. > >If you have use gui books ticked and the gui book has the kings gambit then >it would play it. Myself I use gui books to ONLY supplement poor lines or >lines that Tiger don't do well in. > >Again if gui books is ticked all the engine book then does is pick up where >the gui book leaves off. But your message at the Rebel board indicates you >only were using ct.tbk and that book will not play the kings gambit as white. You're correct. At the time that I made the post on the Rebel message board, I had only the engine book ticked. But trying to use a little reasoning, I thought that using both books would make it stronger, without considering that the lines in the gui book were not suited to Chess Tiger's style. I guess I'm partly to blame for CT 14.0's loss to the 2220 on FICS :( It's 11 PM on Friday and it looks like I'll be up again tonight reseting the engine settings. Here are the settings that I currently have: Permanent brain ON Transposition tables ON Use endgame databases ON Ignore 50 move rule OFF (Is this the correct setting?) Engine CHESS TIGER Hash table 192 MB Draw score 0 (I don't know the purpose of this setting. I assume it's correct.) Anti human play ON (Would you recommend this if I only play humans?) Engine priority NORMAL Style NORMAL Endgame cache size 16 MB Depth 4 Use GUI books OFF Use engine books ON Opening book CT.TBK Besides the above questions about the purpose of the draw score and the use of the anti-human option, my only other source of confusion is the use of the opening books. Since I apparently don't have a clue, I'll stick with the mentioned book settings for now. However, can someone please explain to me what the difference is between a GUI book and an engine book? Why are they given such names (GUI and engine)? And how would I know what a GUI book is if I just looked at a directory listing? What would the file extension be? And are there different types of GUI books? (I've seen the extensions .tbk, .bk and .mvs all used when referring to books) Once I understand what a GUI book is, then I'd like to know about the options used to tweak the usage of a GUI book which aren't available when using the engine book... things like Variation %, Learning strength %, Move distrubution and Priority select. When I fully understand what I'm doing, I'll try my hand at tweaking the books again. Thanks for any help. ed seid hawaii chess project (coming soon)
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