Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 20:08:14 11/24/00
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On November 24, 2000 at 21:37:30, Terry Ripple wrote:
>On November 24, 2000 at 20:08:15, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On November 24, 2000 at 19:46:29, m.d.hurd wrote:
>>
>>>On November 24, 2000 at 14:11:19, Chessfun wrote:
>>>
>>>>On November 24, 2000 at 14:04:09, Daniel Chancey wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Date: 24/11/2000
>>>>>White: ThunderStorm (Gambit Tiger 1.0)
>>>>>Black: guest55 (Chessmaster 7000)
>>>>>Opening: D00 Levitsky Attack
>>>>>White ELO: 2323
>>>>>Result: 0-1
>>>>>Time control = 60 0
>>>>>
>>>>>1. d4 d5 2. Bg5
>>>>
>>>>This suggests you have the gui book loaded not the correct engine book.
>>>>Click extra, options, books, tick engine books.
>>>>
>>>>Sarah.
>>>
>>>Sarah I think in fairness if the default book is the gui book which it was on my
>>>setup one can understand people using it for computer vs computer games.
>>>Wouldn't be better if the default setup used the correct opening book (engine
>>>book) to start with ?
>>>
>>>Regards
>>>
>>>Mike
>>
>>
>>Very true. For me as one of the beta testers of RebelTigerII
>>when I installed it from the CD I guess engine books were already
>>setup so it left it that way. I did mention during beta testing setting
>>the default hash higher but never knew the book loaded as default was
>>gui book.
>>
>>Clearly the default book should be engine book if the program loads with
>>either Tiger or Gambit. And the hash should default higher also I think.
>>Had I noticed either, I would have mentioned it when I wrote the my review
>>of Rebel 11.
>>
>>Sarah.
>-------------
>
>Hi Sarah and Tiger fans,
>
>What is the main difference between using the engine book and the GUI book other
>than i would presume that the engine book is tuned specially for that engine?
>
>How big of a difference would it really make in terms of strength?
>
>Best Regards,
>Terry
It makes a big difference. If you don't check "Use engine book", then you don't
get the benefits of Jeroen's specific work on Tiger's opening book.
Christophe
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