Author: David Dahlem
Date: 14:38:03 03/05/01
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On March 05, 2001 at 16:47:52, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On March 05, 2001 at 16:29:20, David Dahlem wrote: > >>I have Gandalf installed under Winboard, CM 8000, and Fritz 6. I have never been >>able to get it to use it's own book in any of these. Since the new update >>Gandalf432h has supposedly fixed the learning bug, I thought i would try again >>to get the book working. I have tried all possible settings and tried all the >>tips i have seen here. But Gandalf appears to make the first move without >>calculating, then on move 2 it always calculates as if it is out of book. This >>is frustrating as the Gandalf book is taking up 8 mb of disk space and i would >>like to get it working. Any help would be appreciated. >>Here is my init file for Fritz. I have tried it with ponder on\off, analyze >>on\off, etc. I have tried turning use book off in Fritz but that doesn't help. >> >>LEARNING 1 >>DRAW 99 99 >>CONTEMPT 0 >>RESIGN 7 6 >>BOOKPATH c:\chessbase\Engines\Gandalf >>HASH 32 > >Difficult to say what the problem might be. Judging from user comments that I've >received, the most probable reasons is either: > >1) Incorrect bookpath. Make sure that all three bookfiles are placed in the >c:\chessbase\Engines\Gandalf folder. > >2) The bookfiles are Read-only, which they frequently are after being copied >from CD. Remove Read-only from properties. > >3) I don't know if missing items in the res file affects performance (doubtful), >so a suggestion would be to use this one instead: > >LEARNING 1 >DRAW 99 99 >CONTEMPT 0 >RESIGN 7 6 >TB >BOOKPATH c:\chessbase\Engines\Gandalf >HASH 32 >TBCACHE > >That's all I can think of at the moment. > >Regards, >Mogens Thanks a lot Mogens. I should kick myself for not finding the simple solution. It was the read-only status that was the problem. Gandalf now uses it's own book in Fritz. Haven't tried it yet in Winboard or CM 8000 but i assume it will work there also. Again thanks for your help. Dave
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