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Subject: Re: Xboard books

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 05:19:07 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.

This is already addressed by 'bookengine' support which should
be in the next WinBoard release.

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GCP



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