Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 14:54:40 06/11/01
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On June 11, 2001 at 16:01:43, Dann Corbit wrote: >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. I have learned something in the past few days. If you talk about giving away something for free, you get huge numbers of helpful suggestions from everyone. I regard this as generally positive, but I'm also worried that my project won't please everyone. If I was trying to just "get the job done", I would be willing to use everything, but I'm going to try to show source code, and the idea is to write that. The thing doesn't need to have a giant death book. I can make a list of "e2e4" lines and simply eat them and generate a hash table at boot. No problem. bruce
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