Author: Ulrich Tuerke
Date: 09:14:03 09/09/00
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On September 09, 2000 at 02:49:15, Pete Galati wrote: >On September 09, 2000 at 00:53:41, Peter Skinner wrote: > >>>That list must be from Dann's Battle of the Crowns. I'm curious how GNU4 will >>>finish that. That's one of the programs that I wish someone had taken the time >>>to add analysis to (Comet too!!) >>> >>>Pete >> >>Yes i like GNUChess quite a bit, nice strength, but unfortunately loses on time >>quite a bit. >> >>I like Comet as well, but I have noticed it is weaker due to it's opening book. >>With the more aggressive gambits removed, it plays at a lower level. > >The opening book having less Gambits is something I think Mogens commented >about, and I think that his solution was to get an older Comet and use the >opening books from that. But I think that Frank only keeps one set of opening >books for Comet in order to save space, so I guess you could use one that you >download from Gambitsoft, but I forget how old a book you can use. > >Another alternative I think would be to manually add gambit lines back into >Comet's book, because when I look through the "help" in Dos Comet, it appears >that that is very much posible. I assume, but don't know, that all of the >commands that work in the Dos Comet, also work in the Winboard version. No, the book generation commands work in the dos executable only. However, the same book is shared by the wb-engine. So, it's possible to modify the book using the comet32.exe and later let the wb-engine use the modified book. Uli > >Pete
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