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Subject: Re: Crafty Opening Book..One more silly question

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:22:11 12/17/03

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On December 17, 2003 at 12:17:37, Luis Smith wrote:

>On December 17, 2003 at 12:10:55, Brian Katz wrote:
>
>>On December 17, 2003 at 11:47:59, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>>
>>>On December 17, 2003 at 11:42:48, Brian Katz wrote:
>>>
>>>>Is there a Crafty 19.06 or any other Crafty version opening books available for
>>>>download?
>>>>Especially for running engine tournaments, since all of the other major engines
>>>>which are available for purchase have their own specialy designed opening books.
>>>>
>>>>Any info on this would be greatly appreciated.
>>>>
>>>>Thanks
>>>>Brian
>>>
>>>
>>>Download book.bin, bookc.bin and books.bin from the
>>>ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/common directory.  Be sure to add "computer" to
>>>your crafty.rc/.craftyrc file if you are not using xboard/winboard, so that
>>>Crafty will know it is playing a computer.
>>
>>Where would I find the crafty.rc/.craftyrc file since I am using a Chessbase
>>program ...Fritz 8
>>Thanks again Mr. Hyatt
>>Brian
>
>You have to create it on your own, but I can post mine here, you don't have to
>copy it exactly.
>
>log off
>hash=32M
>hashp=8M
>cache=8M
>book random 1
>book width 5
>tbpath=C:\Winboard\Tablebases
>egtb
>resign 4 3

The above looks strange.  "resign" only takes one argument, the number
of pawns to be down before resigning.  IE "resign 4" says resign when
4 pawns down (after several consecutive moves).  The "3" is dangling and
is not used.


>swindle off
>exit
><---make sure there is a blank line here, it sometimes causes problems



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