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Subject: Re: winboard-command

Author: Heiko Mikala

Date: 13:56:03 06/01/98

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Hi Dan,

On June 01, 1998 at 05:47:20, Dan Newman wrote:

>Hmm.  I can't find the .ics file in my Comet directory, nor anything
>in the readme file on how to create one--I've been wondering how to
>turn off Comet's permanent brain...  I can do it interactively with
>an Alt-P but can't figure out how to do it with Winboard.   Help.

The following is the contents of the comet.ics file I'm using:

MAX_HASH [nr of megabytes]: 12
PONDER [ON or OFF]: OFF
SELECTIVITY [ON or OFF]: ON
BOOK [ON or OFF]: ON

Maybe the .ics file is only supported by the newest version that I
mentioned in my previous post?

This is what I found in Comets readme-file "english.txt":

<QUOTE:>
   Comet also supports the interface WINBOARD, which is being developed
by
   the GNU project. Please start the corresponding WIN-32 console
program
   "Comet-wb.exe" without parameters. By default, i.e. without the below
   mentioned init-file, this program plays in the following
configuration:

   MAX_HASH: 12                          (size of hash table in MB)
   PONDER: ON                            (also use opponent's time ?)
   SELECTIVITY: ON                       (selective play on or off)
   BOOK: ON                              (use of book ON or OFF)

   These configuration entries can be changed in the initialization
   file COMET.ICS using a standard editor. (Use capital letters for the
   keywords ON and OFF.)

   You should take into account that Comet allocates, in addition to the
   above hash table about 3 MB for code and further data structures !!!!
<ENDQUOTE>

Greetings,

  Heiko.



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