Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 11:58:08 09/12/01
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On September 12, 2001 at 14:23:02, Peter Berger wrote: >On September 12, 2001 at 13:06:30, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On September 12, 2001 at 12:11:10, Jerry Abbot wrote: >> >>>Which criteria applied to select pgn material for Bookc.bin ? >>>There is no info about Bookc.bin in Crafty.doc >>>What exactly is its function and how does it affect the opening style ? >> >> >>It just simply is a more selective set of starting (opening) moves, that >>avoid some things in books.bin. IE no Latvian. No King's gambit. Etc. >>For white, it will open with d4 every time. > >It would be interesting to be able to look at the source-file . I haven't been >able to find it so it's probably not posted at your site (or I am too dumb to >look :)). > >Why is that ? > I don't provide that for obvious reasons. No sense in making that available since it is "personal choice" anyway. It was made from "start.pgn" by deleting a few lines and changing the playing percentages to be more conservative. >I see no harm for crafty if it was posted as your main interest isn't comp-comp >play anyway - and if there are serious weaknesses found - this can only help in >the long run. > We do enter crafty in comp-comp events. >Same applies to the source of books.bin to some extent. > books.bin source is on the ftp machine in the common directory as "start.pgn". >It would fit well to your open source policy - I also think people would try to >modify and make even better ones and post them - a bit like the sharing of learn >files that was thought to be of use before. > >Regards, > >pete
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