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Subject: Re: christmas2003 tournament now in round 8

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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