Author: Pete Galati
Date: 04:04:55 05/21/01
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On May 21, 2001 at 02:56:10, David Rasmussen wrote: >I don't understand why xboard/winboard doesn't support books on it's own. If it >did, no one would have to implement opening book in their engines unless they >wanted book learning and such. And even that could be supported by xb/wb. Even >if people didn't want to use this feature, they could just turn it off. >Many people are reinventing opening book features all the time. And it really >isn't as exciting as developing search or evaluation etc. That's not the nature of Xboard/Winboard. The opening book is the Chess program's problem, not Xboard/Winboard's problem. They're just there to give you an interface to the Chess program. Besides, most of the programers won't want Tim Mann to be the one making the opening books for their programs, and my guess is that Tim Mann probably isn't interested in doing that either. Pete
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