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Subject: Re: for madhavan

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 10:08:11 08/02/05

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On August 02, 2005 at 11:55:42, Chessfun wrote:

>On August 02, 2005 at 11:47:10, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On August 02, 2005 at 08:22:07, Dom Leste wrote:
>>
>>>The book the tester used is the default book of Fruit :) Its a small book,
>>>Fabien advised people to use Dann's book for fruit.
>>
>>I don't recall Fabien saying exactly that. Anyway Dann's Big book was never
>>released till July 3rd. Fruit was already being tested by that point with the
>>book it came with.
>>
>>Sarah.
>
>This is what was written at Fruit 2.1's release.
>
>"Now, I hear it already.  Tournament directors will want me to
>designate an official book that they should use.  To keep download
>overhead low, I decided to include only a small book in the main
>archive: it's called "book_small.bin".  It is in fact the same as
>"fruit.bin" in the PolyGlot 1.3 release.
>
>However, I would prefer that Fruit has access to a larger book during
>tournaments.  At the time I am writing this line, "book_corbit.bin" is
>planned to be made available on WBEC.
>
>You can build your own book from a PGN file by using PolyGlot on the
>command line.  PolyGlot is available for download at
>http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/"

I want to say, that Dann himself told, he won't guarantee his book would
be better than Fruits original book at all. Actually there were
some losing out of book lines posted from it during the last 2 weeks.
AFAIK no such lines are yet known from the original Fruit book.

Guenther



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