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Subject: Re: Crafty question

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 02:58:23 05/30/04

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On May 30, 2004 at 05:54:33, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

>Can anybody tell me why Crafty is unable to open
>its opening book?
>
>
>Initializing multiple threads.
>System is SMP, not NUMA.
>EPD Kit revision date: 1996.04.21
>unable to open book file [./books.bin].
>found computer opening book file [./bookc.bin].
>4 piece tablebase files found
>1401kb of RAM used for TB indices and decompression tables
>hash table memory =   48M bytes.
>pawn hash table memory =   24M bytes.
>EGTB cache memory =   32M bytes.
>show book statistics
>
>
>Crafty v19.13 (1 cpus)
>
>White(1):
>
>
>My crafty.rc:
>
>tbpath=c:\tbs_4men
>hash=48M
>hashp=24M
>cache=32M
>log off
>show book
>kibitz 1
>whisper 2
>exit
>
>
>I have the following files in the Crafty-folder:
>
>book.bin
>book.c
>book.lrn
>bookc.bin
>crafty.rc
>position.bin
>position.lrn
>wcrafty.exe

You are missing the file books.bin, that Crafty uses as a repertoire file
against humans. You can download it at ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/common/.

Crafty did find the opening book, it just complained that it misses this file.

Peter



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