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Subject: Re: Crafty Bookc

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:04:58 09/13/01

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On September 13, 2001 at 08:55:39, Aaron Tay wrote:

>On September 12, 2001 at 14:58:08, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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 might have missed it, but I don't see any mention about bookc.bin in the docs.
>Do i compile the bookc.bin in the normal way?
>
>eg bookc create pgnfile ply ?
>
>What happens if I have both book.bin, books.bin and bookc.bin?
>Does Crafty automatically know when to switch to the bookc.bin? eg When the
>computer command is sent through Winboard  will it only use bookc.bin?
>
>Or perhaps it's no more than a normal book/books bin file?
>
>Thanks
>
>Aaron

it is just like books.bin.

"bookc create xxx.pgn 60" will do the trick...




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>>>pete



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