Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 20:17:00 01/11/99
Go up one level in this thread
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 this *really* pisses me. I know I have fixed this a half-dozen times, but every time I fix something else, I seem to break this. What is supposed to happen is that any game with no Result tag of any kind is supposed to be counted as a win for both black and white, to make the "small" book usable. The reason for small.txt not having those tags is that was the basis for the Cray Blitz book in the 1980's... Bert Gower and I personally typed in all of MCO10, much of MCO11/12/13, plus some ECO and BCO lines as well. But we didn't use the result of games back then (PGN didn't really exist). what is needed is for someone to make a reasonable small book with valid PGN syntax, to replace the small book completely on my ftp site...
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.