Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 07:56:18 10/06/00
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On October 05, 2000 at 17:36:40, Anthony Boynes wrote: >Perhaps it is not good for playing a wide variety of opponents, but I have other >intentions. I want to use different books specialized for specific openings, in >order train against them. The books.bin would have enough information for the >different openings, and the book.bin would cover as many main line variations in >each opening as I can get my hands on. > For training, ok. But for playing real games... suppose you want the program to play the Evans Gambit. And you load up book.bin with nothing but Evans Gambit lines, and use books.bin to choose the ones you consider best. And when you play 1. e4, your opponent replies 1. ... d5 and you have no book. That is why I make book.bin all-inclusive, and use books.bin to suggest the openings I want it to play... In a game, you need a wide fall-back option if you can't absolutely force the opening you want... > > >On October 05, 2000 at 15:27:45, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On October 04, 2000 at 17:16:57, Anthony Boynes wrote: >> >>>I think always using the books.bin, and switching the book.bin would work out >>>better. >>> >>>Thanks. >>> >> >>Intuitively this sounds wrong. IE I want book.bin to be comprehensive, in >>case my opponent does something I don't expect. I use books.bin (at previous >>WMCCC events not counting this year I had several) to let me choose the >>particular opening I want it to play. IE 1. e4 or 1. d4... but a big >>book.bin lets me handle the bizarre cases that my opponent might go for. >> >> >> >> >>> >>> >>>On October 03, 2000 at 11:53:36, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>> >>>>On October 03, 2000 at 10:15:22, Anthony Boynes wrote: >>>> >>>>>Okie dokie. Any chances of a feature like that in a future version? :) >>>> >>>>This is an easy one: >>>> >>>>Give it some thought and tell me what you want. IE crafty has two book files, >>>>book.bin (big book) and books.bin (the small 'guidance' book). Do you want to >>>>always use book.bin, but select a different books.bin? If you can figure out >>>>how you would like it to work, I can do it easily. >>>> >>>>Ball is in your court. Make it an "ace". >>>> >>>>:) >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>>>On October 03, 2000 at 09:50:35, Robert Hyatt wrote: >>>>> >>>>>>On October 03, 2000 at 08:04:43, Anthony Boynes wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>>Hello, >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Is there a way to make Crafty load a particular opening book when you first run >>>>>>>it? Ideally I would like to have several opening books and be able to pick >>>>>>>which one Crafty uses. >>>>>>> >>>>>>>For example: >>>>>>> >>>>>>>gambits.bin >>>>>>>sicilian.bin >>>>>>>reti.bin >>>>>>> >>>>>>> >>>>>>>...and then be able to load any of those books on starting Crafty up. >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Not inside crafty, but if you use a start-up script, you could rename >>>>>>files to make that happen very quickly.
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