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Subject: Re: Crafty Book Implementation

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 17:52:07 06/11/01

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On June 11, 2001 at 18:03:55, David Rasmussen wrote:

>On June 11, 2001 at 17:44:55, J. Wesley Cleveland wrote:
>
>>>match the actual parent position(s) from when the book was created?
>>
>>Right, the only transpositions crafty finds are those that have been played in
>>the pgn the book was created from. This prevents crafty from making stupid
>>transpositions, e.g. e4 e5 Nf3 Nc6 Ng1 Nb8??
>
>I see now. That is of course a problem. But it would still be nicer, if this was
>somehow prevented, so one could take full advantage of the opening knowledge in
>the book. This would allow one to make transpositions into book positions from
>non-book positions.


It can do this.  What my current book logic requires is that the previous
position must be a legitimate book position that is followed by the current
book position (to allow the transposition.)  If this fails, crafty will have
to search normally.  But if It then finds a move that returns it to a book
position, all will be ok as it will then transpose in for its "next" search
since this and that position are known book positions.



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