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Subject: Re: ALL IS WELL!! (Crafty book not played as black)

Author: bob minge

Date: 19:41:44 01/11/99

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On January 11, 1999 at 16:07:07, Peter Karrer wrote:

>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

All is well. Copied book.bin and books.bin from crafty site. Works good now.
Must have been the small book the first time. Even though crafty (playing black
with no opening book) was behind by up to a minute at midpoint (5 min game) was
able to win or draw all games played. Good program.  Bob



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