Author: Keith Evans
Date: 20:45:53 07/07/04
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On July 07, 2004 at 22:56:46, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On July 07, 2004 at 20:55:10, Mike Byrne wrote: > >>On July 07, 2004 at 11:51:44, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >> >>>...in the blitz tournament :) >>> >>>Couldn't get a PGN yet. >>> >>>-- >>>GCP >> >>Whew - I thought you meant at long time controls. We all know anything cna >>happen in Blitz, just ask Topalov. >> >>;>) > > >I have not looked at the games. But Peter and I discussed this and we chose to >use my wide-open ICC book for these games to avoid giving away anything about >his tournament preparation. > >I knew that we would bust one or more openings. The one thing I forgot is that >I cleverly copied my binary books from my xeon to the opteron. Doesn't work. >90% of my book was unusable leading to some bizarre opening choices. I did that >late at night and just forgot that even though the opteron and xeon are both >little-endian, the opteron has a longer struct padding (to 8 bytes rather than 4 >bytes) which kills my binary book copy. > >Stupid. Stupid. Stupid. > >I should have remembered. :( Is there any way that you can have crafty automatically detect that a binary book has been "corrupted" in this fashion? This seems worth doing. If you made this mistake, then surely a lot of other people will make the same mistake.
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