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Subject: Re: Bruce Moreland's Gerbil

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 13:01:43 06/11/01

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On June 10, 2001 at 21:20:24, Bruce Moreland wrote:
>On June 10, 2001 at 19:35:46, Pete Galati wrote:
[snip]
>>Many of us will appreciate simplicity.  An opening book would be more valuable
>>to somebody learning Chess programming, and I would think an ascii text type of
>>opening book like used in SCP would be the clearest least complicated way to go
>>for that.
>>
>>Pete
>
>I had thought about that.  If there is anything that is reasonably standard,
>I'll try to find it and follow it.
>
>I'll check into that system, if I can find it.
>
>The Gnuchess book might also be an okay format to eat.
>
>I would like to eat something that doesn't depend on SAN.  If I use SAN I'd like
>to use it everywhere, but it is annoying to mess with it in PV's, because SAN
>depends upon move legality.  This makes it kind of difficult to do PGN.

Why not use Remi Coulom's library for opening books?  It has all that stuff
worked out for you.  It's GPL, IIRC.  I would prefer something like ACE's or a
Berkeley license, but for teaching purposes GPL is very good.

Now, his project is very large.  But if you just use it as a black box that
spits back opening moves, then it won't complicate your source.



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