Author: John Merlino
Date: 10:43:18 09/07/00
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On September 07, 2000 at 11:57:20, ujecrh wrote: >On September 07, 2000 at 11:07:36, Carlos Pesce wrote: > >>Hi, John! >>It means that CM8000 will support WB engines, can you implement that the WB >>engines can (if the user want) play with his own openings books? In tournament >>mode or gainst CM8000 too. >>thanks in advance >>Carlos Pesce > >If I remember correctly, John mentionned in a previous post that winboard >engines will appear like chessmaster personalities which can each have their oen >book. Regarding this remark, we will probably be able to assign an empty CM book >to a winboard engine so that the engine itself takes care of this possibly using >its own book. > >Ujecrh Actually, this is an EXTREMELY good idea that the development team had not thought of. Right now, the only things you can specify about an external WB engine is through command line parameters (and, of course, external data files that the engine might support, such as Crafty's .RC file). But, the development team tells me that there is no reason that you can't have an external WB engine use a Chessmaster opening book. They will try to implement it by ship. If they can't get it in in time for that, they have told me that it will get in in a patch. However, you will not be able to use Crafty's book with a Chessmaster personality, however. It won't work the other way around. Great suggestion! jm
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