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Subject: Re: EXchess bugfix released

Author: Dan Homan

Date: 18:42:40 03/23/02

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On March 23, 2002 at 14:38:09, Daniel Clausen wrote:

>On March 23, 2002 at 07:47:29, Dan Homan wrote:
>
>>I fixed a couple of minor bugs in EXchess about a week ago and updated my
>>webpage.... unfortunately, the fixes introduced at least one major bug.  My
>>apologies to anyone who has been struggling with the 'bugfixed' version.  I've
>>just made a new bugfix (called version 4.03a) which is now up on my website.
>>Hopefully this fixes the outstanding bugs without introducing new ones.
>>
>>http://home.earthlink.net/~econerd/EXchess.html
>>
>> - Dan
>
>Great to see there's another engine we Mac-types can run! Thanks Dan!! :)
>
>I could successfully build EXchess under MacOSX by adding an include statement
>for unistd.h at line 18.
>
>Build line was: c++ -o EXchess exchess.cc -O2 -pipe
>
>EXchess couldn't use the opening book I gave it (main_bk.dat). I assume the
>reason is big/little endianess. I will try to build an opening book out of a
>.pgn file later though. (any suggestions what pgn to use - I don't need a 7gb
>opening book, just a lil/medium one would do :)

I just use the over 2600 pgn file on Dann Corbit's website... not sure what the
name is, but it has games only from players over 2600 in strength.  I downloaded
his latest version (as of a couple of months ago) to make "main_bk.dat".  I
don't remember the file being that large (6 MB zipped or something).

 - Dan


>
>Also it seems that main_bk.dat is twice in the zip file. At least unzip asked me
>to rename the 2nd one and the "diff file1 file2" didn't find any differences.
>
>Sargon



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