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Subject: Re: Technical question regarding interface for CCT

Author: Omid David Tabibi

Date: 05:10:43 12/14/03

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On December 14, 2003 at 07:58:41, Uri Blass wrote:

>On December 14, 2003 at 06:00:10, Tord Romstad wrote:
>
>>On December 13, 2003 at 19:18:58, Omid David Tabibi wrote:
>>
>>>On December 13, 2003 at 04:26:16, Tord Romstad wrote:
>>>
>>>>The easiest solution to this is to spend another afternoon on adding opening
>>>>book
>>>>code to the engine.
>>>
>>>How exactly, if you don't know anything about the format (ctg) you are going to
>>>code for?!
>>
>>Why is it so important to use exactly the same book?  Just do like almost
>>everybody
>>else, and build a book from a PGN database.
>>
>>Tord
>
>I do not know how almost everybody does it.
>Did you look first in free source code like book.c of crafty to understand how
>other do it?

Most programmers don't get into the hassle of writing their own book format.
Instead, the time is better spent improving the automatically generated book in
one of the common formats.



>
>My book today is small and does not know about tranpositions.
>
>Maybe you are a good programmer so for you it is only spending another afternoon
>to do it.
>
>I suspect that for me it is a lot more than it.
>
>Uri



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