Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 18:35:28 01/27/04
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On January 27, 2004 at 15:10:31, Thorsten Czub wrote: >On January 27, 2004 at 10:43:27, Robert Hyatt wrote: > >> >> >>Can you tell+ me where the book came from? > > > >>there is no 1. f4 that is playable, only e4 and d4. I assume you are using >>book.bin, bookc.bin, books.bin and that you have the keyword "computer" in your >>crafty.rc file? (the book files above from my ftp machine?) I would not begin >>to explain where 1. f4 came from... > >to be honest bob, i don't know. i copied the new crafty exe in my old old >winboard directory and set the path of arena (inclusive crafty.rc as ini file) >to the directory. there is a book. It isn't a big deal, I just noticed that the f4 stood out as an unusual opening, although I don't consider it bad for a computer as white. Dave Slate used that all the time in the 80's, for example. I was just curious... >the winboard directory is very old. i used it in those times when we had no >arena and no other GUI's to run winboard programs in. >so it can be the book is not very big and also not very optimized. >in those time we had no ADSL :-)) > > >book.bin 12.853 KB >book.dat 56 KB >Book.lrn 15 KB >bookc.bin 129 KB >books.bin 130 KB > >Do you want me to use a special book ? nah. I was just interested in where it came from... Bob >if so, please give me the link and i will download and install it in this >directory. i never thought much about giving crafty a special book. >the idea was to let crafty participate to have an idea where it is >within a big range of different programs. > >>IE if the "computer" command is missing from your crafty.rc file, then my book >>should look like this: > >crafty.rc is looking this way: > >name zchess2.2 >computer >hash=196M >hashp=32M >cache=16M >resign=9 >book on >book random 1 >book width 3 >noise 6000000 >learn 7 >drawscore=0 >tbpath=d:\schach\tb >egtb >time 40/120/20/60 >exit > >>Where the only playable move is 1. e4 (this is the book used against human >>players). >> >>Bob > >thank you for your comments. if you like that i use a specific book, >please name the web-site or the size and i will download and install it. >feel free to instruct me the way that crafty plays the best, if you want it to >do so. > >If you e.g. want another version to play, you could tell me. i do e.g. not know >if 19.07 is still the strongest or if there are important changes in other >versions.
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