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Subject: Re: ICC question (Tiger books)

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 03:15:58 03/12/01

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On March 12, 2001 at 00:14:19, Eelco de Groot wrote:

>On March 11, 2001 at 23:40:56, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On March 11, 2001 at 23:28:41, Eelco de Groot wrote:
>>
>>>On March 11, 2001 at 23:10:23, John Dahlem wrote:
>>>
>>>>On March 11, 2001 at 20:13:50, Thomas Mayer wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi Eelco,
>>>>>
>>>>>>Does anybody maybe know if the Chess Tiger accounts on ICC are still
>>>>>>encountering 1.h2-h4 openings as Black?
>>>>>today or yesterday I have seen at least one Chess Tiger account that has in its
>>>>>finger notes that it refuses openings like that... And there was mentioned that
>>>>>it refuses to play also many other openings like this... (Reason, also pointed
>>>>>out in finger notes: To maximize score)
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>Are you kidding me? The Chess Tiger accounts dont accept 1.h4 because they
>>>>ALWAYS lose to it. There is no point in accepting a game starting with that
>>>>opening because it is over once it is played. The reason this user doesnt accept
>>>>that opening is to protect himself from cheaters, or at least people taking
>>>>advantage of a weakness in a program to inflate their rating.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>Well we were trying to find a way around that by making a user book with a few
>>>more moves in it against 1.h2-h4. People could do that easily themselves unless
>>>there is some glitch.
>>>
>>>See messages at  http://www.rebel.nl/ubb/Forum7/HTML/000149.html
>>>
>>>I haven't tried this out myself but I thought it might work. I mean 1.h2-h4? But
>>>if it doesn't work I would like to hear about it. If necessary I could try to
>>>put a little Anti-Borg.BK together myself but I have no way of trying it out on
>>>the servers. That's why I would like to see some games if it isn't working yet
>>>as planned.
>>>
>>>Regards, Eelco
>>
>>
>>While creating a user book is simple as is adding lines to that book to
>>combat 1. h4. Making a large size book takes a very long time.
>>
>>It would be much easier if the *.tbk books could be modified or one was supplied
>>that was equal but with extension *.bk so as it could be modified.
>>
>>
>>Sarah.
>
>
>I was hoping that the two books could be used together, so that at least if you
>were out of book in the small user.bk e.g. if White doesn't play 1.h2-h4 the
>program would automatically go to the "big" book. The Help menu isn't very clear
>to me about this.. Lex, if you are reading this maybe couldn't you program that?
>But you are right Sarah, a way to make changes to any of the larger books would
>be much preferable. If that wouldn't make access under Blitz slower but I don't
>think that would have to be a problem? Have you ever tried making such a user
>book yourself, Sarah?
>
> Eelco

The coming gui update has an opion to use both the GUI as the engines books
simultaneously. This way you can add a small user book to add some lines.

Lex






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