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Subject: Re: ICC question (Tiger books)

Author: Chessfun

Date: 04:31:55 03/12/01

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On March 12, 2001 at 06:15:58, Lex Loep wrote:

>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

I should have added that as a third option as it works just as well.

Sarah.





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