Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:43:05 06/28/98
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On June 28, 1998 at 13:35:51, William Dozier wrote: >Good/Day everyone: Question:1-How do one go about building a book/books bin, >since the old ones dont work? Question:2-Are there any up/to/date T/B and pgn >files for the Mac. Is it that hard for you programmers to port crafty for the >Mac? And the reason i that question is that you guys give me the impression that >you can do anything when it comes to otimizing and programmiing for the Pcs, but >when the time come to port crafty for the Mac its another story. and that story >is compliers, and i have heard that story for some time now, so it seems kind of tablebase files should work perfectly as is, because all of them are one-byte entities, meaning that "endian" issues don't affect them. Until we reach those that are mate in > 125 or so. the book files are machine-independent by their ASCII nature, so any of those can be used to build a book. building the book files is covered in the read.me file on the crafty site as well as in the crafty.doc documentation file. command is "book create pgnfile maxplies minplay" maxplies is usually something like 60, minplay (for me) is usually 3. >hard to belive that you programmers in quite some time have not been able to >optimize or up/grade crafty for the Mac as it is done ffor Pcs. And it has been >proven that the Mac is an ideal machine to play chess at its current speed. I >dont feel the Mac is any better than a pc or visa/versa Mac happen to fit my >personality/ the Amiga that i had own and played chess on it that machine fitted >my personality at that time. So for me, the Mac doesnt require a >deep/learning/curve and the chess programs dont require a doop/learning/curve. >Still that doesnt make the Mac the Best Machine. Its the best Machine for me, >and you get what you pay for, no matter how fast it is. If the O/S is not >reliable, i dont need a fast machine, unless the O/S is reliable. The machine >and O/S depend on the program that it was written for. And i belive that it is >the same for chess programs. > > Resectfully/William
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