Author: Telmo C. Escobar
Date: 21:13:34 08/06/05
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On August 06, 2005 at 17:45:45, George Speight wrote: >I am using Fritz chessbase. I downloaded Zappa 1.0 and extracted the contents >into an engine folderi made for it under chessbase engines. I then entered it >into my list of chessbase engines. Everything worked fine. Then i downloaded the >book for the program, and since it is not a ctg. book, i also extracted the >contents of it into the engines folder. The same way i have done with many other >freeware programs that i have. When i go to chessbase and pick Zappa to play, i >have to list some opening book for it to use, or it will use the one from the >previous engine i had loaded. So i have made and just use an empty folder called >"own book .ctg" I enter it as the opening book for Zappa to use. Its really >nothing, for Zappa is using its own opening book located in the engines folder. >I use the same procedure with Aristarch, Pharaon, Pro Deo, Ruffian, SOS Arena, >Spike. Works fine for all of them. But Zappa for some reason will not play from >the opening book like the rest mentioned above will. I play pK4 to start, and >Zappa will think for 2 minutes before moving. For some reason it is not >recognizing and/or using the book in the engines folder. I told Graham about >this, so he sent me his zappa files to download, and i used his instead and the >same thing happens. I cant get Zappa to use an opening book. Graham says it >beats him, because it works for him under chessbase, and i am installing >everything correctly. Anyone out there with any ideas? This one has me >stumped!! Thanks, George I believed Zappa to be a Winboard engine. Are you using wb2uci in order to use Zappa -in Chessbase- as UCI? Telmo
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