Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 15:57:44 12/12/03
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On December 12, 2003 at 18:41:28, Amir Ban wrote: >On December 12, 2003 at 09:19:56, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >>On December 12, 2003 at 03:30:27, Omid David Tabibi wrote: >> >>>The main opening book of Falcon is in Shredder Classic format (BOK), but I can >>>also create a similar book out of my pgn database in Fritz format (CTG). In any >>>case, Falcon relies on the interface to play the opening moves. >>> >>>So, AFAIK there is no way to connect either the Fritz or Shredder Classic >>>interfaces to play on ICC. In that case, and assuming that there is no external >>>program that can read either BOK or CTG formats and play the moves on behalf of >>>WinBoard interface, I don't see how Falcon can play in CCT. >>> >>>It seems that the only interfaces that can connect to ICC are WinBoard and >>>Arena, none of which have their own book formats (can't compile a book out of a >>>pgn database). >>> >>>However, non-winboard engines such as Shredder, Fritz, Junior, and Hiarcs have >>>already participated in CCT in the past. >>> >>>What am I missing?! >> >>The fact that you should "roll your own book program". I suspect it won't be >>long before using a foreign interface is illegal in all CC competitions. For >>one thing, Junior has had an ICC interface for years. I don't know about the >>others... > >I'll plead not guilty to this. I used to play on ICC manually, and I played one >or two CCT's that way. The last CCT Junior played we had something automatic >that Shay organized, but it was based on our class-of-1995 interface and book. > >Boris Alterman has been doing the Junior book since 1999, and it exists only in >Chessbase format. > >I would like to play in CCT, and I don't even mind using that nonsense book we >compiled 8 years ago, Is that "nonsense book", considerably stronger than a book you can automatically generate today? If not, create an automated book in ChessPartner interface (what I am doing at the very moment), and run Junior as a WinBoard or UCI engine (implementing support for each of them is a matter of a few hours). >and resurrecting the alphanumeric graphic I tossed in the >drawer years ago, but I think for the coming CCT even these concessions won't >do, and I really have to draw a line somewhere how much I go backwards. > >CCT rules seem to be geared for ICC-native programs and the features they >already have anyway, with anything else proclaimed illegal or primitive. > >Amir
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