Author: Matthias Gemuh
Date: 12:45:10 08/26/02
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On August 26, 2002 at 13:49:05, Steve Coladonato wrote: >On August 26, 2002 at 10:17:04, Matthias Gemuh wrote: > ><snip> >> >>Hi Steve, >> >>Nobody can verify that an engine is not using book after move 14. >>This is probably one of the main reasons why book move are not limited. >> >>I hate to watch a game only to realize that the engine is also only watching and >>the game is actually played to a won/lost position by a book !!!! >> >>I am the author of BigLion (http://www.gemuh.de) and my engine interacts with >>book only as follows : a) look in book, b) if moves available, sort them >>(according to number of won games) and randomly choose one of the "good" ones. >> c) if no book moves, go calculate. >> >>I don't understand why some authors weave a book into every part of their >>engine. A book is not part of the engine. >> >>Matthias. > >Matthias, > >I am not familiar with BigLion. Does it run on Linux and if so can I download >it? Also, do you know if it is compatible with SCID? > >I don't have any problem using a book as a look-up. But I am getting the >impression that the book is becoming a tablebase for the entire game. Perhaps >that is the way chess will be "solved". > >Steve > >Steve Hi Steve, I don't have any experience with Unix/Linux, so I don't think I could port BigLion to Linux. BigLion is written in Borland C++ Builder 5 and supports the UCI and Winboard protocols. It ponders and analyes only under UCI because I don't fully understand the WB protocol (yet). It is not very strong and currently does not support console mode. It will also not play black against humans (a bug). I wrote the first line of code about 12 months ago, so much improvement is still to come :-). Regards, Matthias.
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