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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