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Subject: Re: How to create a custom opening repertoire for Crafty/ Some tips

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 09:09:57 10/09/04

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On October 09, 2004 at 11:23:13, Peter Berger wrote:

>On October 08, 2004 at 18:08:24, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>Thanks for these excellent instructions, Peter. Now the most time consuming task
>>is collecting and cleaning up the games to be used in creating Crafty books. I
>>do have one question though. If only using these books against computers, is
>>books.bin necessary?
>>
>Strictly spoken: no .
>
>But the easiest way to deal with it, is to just build books.bin _and_ bookc.bin
>the same way, so that they are identical. Takes no time after all.
>
>This way your repertoire will also be used in case Crafty doesn't get the
>computer command for whatever reason ( there are issues with some GUIs).
>
>Peter

Hi Peter

I don't understand. Why identical books.bin and bookc.bin? How does Crafty
handle them differently if only playing against computers? By the way, i tried
bookc.bin by itself, and it didn't work. I created a book.bin and tried it by
itself and it works. Very confusing. :-)

Regards
Dave



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