Author: Pete Galati
Date: 10:26:59 05/21/01
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On May 21, 2001 at 13:05:48, David Rasmussen wrote: >On May 21, 2001 at 07:04:55, Pete Galati wrote: > >>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. >> > >I know, but opening book support is so boringly simple, that it might as well be >the interface that does it. It is very boring to implement opening book in a >chess engine (at least for me), still, it can be done in really bad and really >good ways. Why not let the engine handle this? It would make any winboard >program, such as TSCP, have powerful openbook capabilities at hand. I agree, it does open some posibilities. > >>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. >> > >Why would Tim Mann be doing it? If this is to be done in any kind of sane way, >users, programmers etc. should be able to build their own books, control >learning features etc. from the engine. I think Gian-Carlo Pascutto indicated that this is in the works already? I'm surprised. But I wonder if a special utility for buiding books for Winboard/Xboard will be included with them. I can't picture building it into the gui. Pete
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