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Subject: Re: Compiling crafty 19.20 for single CPU windows

Author: Matthew Hull

Date: 16:19:53 08/24/05

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On August 24, 2005 at 17:50:45, Peter Berger wrote:

>On August 24, 2005 at 14:24:13, Matthew Hull wrote:
>
>>All except for the Berger book.
>>
>>;)
>
>That's an issue I already thought about seriously last year.
>
>2004 I decided to post in detail how the book was done at CCC (including *all*
>sources, the major one being Larry Kaufman) , so that anyone should have been
>able to simply redo it in case he/she was determined enough. But with the CCC
>search engine not being updated , this message is probably lost in cyberspace
>forever.
>
>I'd actually simply release it for download right now, if people interested to
>download understand how such a book is done and supposed to work. It is 100%
>deterministic for once at any given point in time, so it will of course suck
>terribly in a match against an engine that has a booklearner .
>
>So Bob was also correct to point out that there were *always* some minor changes
>between rounds, but the book that played in the final one is as close to the
>WCCC2005 book as you can get .
>
>I have no problem at all to provide the source or the books.bin itself for
>download somewhere - it's just that I don't think it will be *that* useful. Is
>there some demand ?


There is always Turino next year.  Either you or someone might want to dust it
off next spring.

:)



>
>Peter



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