Author: pavel
Date: 16:13:26 12/26/01
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On December 26, 2001 at 18:11:42, Gerrit Reubold wrote: >Hi all, > >the new version of my chess program is now available for free download from my >homepage www.reubold.onlinehome.de > >As always, the engine is modified, I hope (and believe) it is stronger than >Bringer 1.8, but it is up to you to test this :-) > >The GUI didn't change much, with one exception: Book handling. The opening books >are now splitted into three separate files, which are freely interchangeable. 1. >the raw data (automatically generated from PGN files) 2. the repertoire (the ! >and ? signs, the work of the book author), and 3. the scores from the book >learning. > >These are the advantages: Bringer doesn't store the !!-etc comments in the >opening book anymore, so you can simply rebuild the plain opening book from >newer PGNs and keep your !!-etc comments in a separate file (I call this file >the repertoire file). You can have many of these repertoire files and combine >them with opening book files as you like. f.ex. you could have a "Sicilian >Defence" repertoire file, a "Queens Gambit" repertoire file, a complete >repertoire file, a secret tournament repertoire etc. Note that these repertoire >files are usually very small, contrary to the opening books, thus they are >easily shared with your friends over the internet. The booklearning results are >kept in separate files, too, so you can switch these files, send them to your >friends, turn them off etc. as needed. >The download includes an example repertoire: cct3.btu. This repertoire was >successfully used in the CCT-3 tournament, it was created by Peter Berger. > >Other topics: >New option: Mainvariation always international >(Since version 1.9, Bringer displays the main variation not like this "d2-d4 >g8-f6" anymore, but like this: "d4 Nf6", which is more readable. In the german >GUI, this would be "d4 Sf6", but if you like the international symbols (N >instead of S), even in the german GUI, select this option.) >Autosave: >When you exit Bringer, the current position is now saved and automatically >loaded when you start it again. > >One other thing, for fans of Bringer, collectors, and friends of weak engines. >You can download one of the very first versions of Bringer, it is from March >1996, after 10 weeks of work (Pete called it "Baby-Bringer" :)). The GUI is only >in german, but I think you can operate it even when you don't speak German. > >Greetings, >Gerrit Thanks alot Gerrit, Bringer has always been one of my favourite chess program, and you know it ;) regards, pavs
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