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

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 09:31:34 12/17/03

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On December 17, 2003 at 12:23:04, Luis Smith wrote:

>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...

That's a good idea that I will add, but it is not in the current version.

:)

I notice it was given that way in the help command output, so I just made it
work as it claimed.  :)

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



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