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

Author: Luis Smith

Date: 09:23:04 12/17/03

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On December 17, 2003 at 12:22:11, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>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.

I thought the 3 was used for the number of moves it was consecutively down?  I
guess I'll take it out then...

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



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