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Subject: Re: Crafty book not played as black

Author: Peter Karrer

Date: 13:07:07 01/11/99

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On January 10, 1999 at 19:54:57, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On January 10, 1999 at 15:43:56, bob minge wrote:
>
>>I have a problem with crafty (16.1, 16.2,16.3) not playing out of its book when
>>it is black. It does play out of its book when playing white. I have asked
>>Robert Hyatt, and after looking at a couple of logs from crafty he did not know
>>why, and I did not pursue it because I know he is busy. Does anyone else have
>>any ideas as to why crafty does this? Does it from text play or from winboard.
>>Thanks in advance. Bob
>
>
>Let's restart...
>
>first, did you build the book yourself or copy the .bin version from my
>ftp site?  If you copied, make _certain_ it did not change in size, even
>one byte will break things...
>
>second, if you built it yourself, from which file?  Your own collection of
>games?
>
>I really don't have an idea because it is working normally for everyone else I
>know of.  Something is wrong.  Finding out what might be difficult...

This happens with the small book from your site... It seems that Crafty assumes
a win for white if the [Result ...] tag is missing.

Regards, Peter



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