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Subject: Re: Can't Get Book To Work With Toga II 1.1

Author: F. Huber

Date: 14:36:22 12/03/05

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On December 03, 2005 at 17:28:34, F. Huber wrote:

>On December 03, 2005 at 16:58:42, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On December 03, 2005 at 16:54:53, George Speight wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>I am trying to use the book from Fruit 2.2 with Toga II 1.1  I copy the book
>>>from the Fruit 2.2 folder into the Toga 1.1 folder. Then i go to chessbase and
>>>load Toga 1.1 as the engine to play. In parameters i change the book setting to
>>>book.bin , just as it is in Fruit 2.2  But i cannot get Toga to play any
>>>openings with it. It is like it wont accept the book for some reason. I use
>>>empty.ctg as the opening book, which should force Toga to use the book in its
>>>paramters, but it wont. I switch back to Fruit 2.2 and use the same process with
>>>empty .ctg and fruit plays openings perfectly. Where am i going wrong. They both
>>>have the same book listed to use in parameters, Fruit will play openings and
>>>Toga wont. Where in hell am i going wrong. Worn out with this, George
>>
>>
>>      Hi George
>>      I think you are not doing something wrong. As far as I
>>      can remember it's simply impossible to use the Fruit
>>      book for Toga ... no idea why this is so.
>>      Best regards
>>      Kurt
>
>Hello Kurt,
>
>since I´m not using UCI engines in the Fritz-GUI I can´t say anything about it,
>but at least under Arena TogaII 1.1 actually _is_ using the Fruit book!
>(although at first it needs a closing and restarting of the engine, but that´s
>a known problem of Arena when installing a new engine).
>
>But GambitFruit Beta4 isn´t using any of the Fruit books at all - I´ve tried
>all possible tricks without success, so this must be a bug ...
>
>Regards,
>Franz.

Sorry, but I have to correct myself:
I´ve just tried the same _restarting_ process for GambitFruit under Arena,
and since this moment also GambitFruit is using the book correctly!
So everthing seems ok with the engine - that´s really one of those annoying
Arena ´features´ ... :-(

Franz.




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