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Subject: Re: Randomness of Crafty's book moves???

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 15:14:45 05/25/00

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On May 25, 2000 at 17:01:41, Severi Salminen wrote:

>Hello!
>
>When I play comp-comp match in Winboard between two Craftys I _always_ get the
>following opening:
>
>1. d4 d5 2. c4 dxc4 3. Nf3 Nf6 4. e3 e6 5. Bxc4 c5 6. O-O a6 7. Qe2 b5 8.
>Bb3 Bb7 9. Rd1 Nbd7 10. Nc3 Qb6 11. d5 Nxd5 12. Nxd5 Bxd5 13. Bxd5 exd5 14.
>Rxd5 Be7 15. e4 Rd8 16. Be3
>
>Why?
>
>I have a book created of medium.zip (it still had some 110 errors in it...) and
>the books.bin from crafty's ftp site. In crafty.rc I have lines "book random 1"
>and "book width 10". Is this only a Winboard problem or what?
>
>Severi

It's not _actually_ a problem, it's just sort of boring.  In a eng vs eng game,
Winboard tells Crafty that it's playing against another computer program, so
Crafty starts with the bookc.bin opening book, and that narrows thing down
considerably, so you end up seeing the same thing over and over.

Pete



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