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

Author: Mogens Larsen

Date: 13:02:46 05/26/00

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On May 26, 2000 at 15:55:47, Pete Galati wrote:

>For the most part, Crafty will play a much narrower variety of openings against
>another program, no matter what you do.  So downloading bookc.bin would be good
>for Crafty, but it won't get you a wider variety of openings, I think it narrows
>it in the eng/eng games.

Yes, that is true. Unless you find the Ruy Lopez very charming.

>I'd hate to see you putting a large amount of energy into getting it to play
>more eng/eng openings, you might not succeed.
>
>I think Mogens has the answer though, you'd want to download the start.pgn and
>change the weights (see the text files for instructions) and compile a new
>books.bin file (and not use a bookc.bin?).  I have no idea, but I imagine that
>you'd need to go though the same basic proceedure to make a bookc.bin file, but
>I don't know what file Bob compiled that with to start with.

You only need one of them, so it's not a major problem. You can use the same
start.pgn with different weights if you choose to create a books.bin as well. I
think it's possible to reset weights in the Crafty.rc file, but I'm not sure.

Best wishes...
Mogens



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