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Subject: Re: Cannot get Arena to use engine books

Author: Thomas Logan

Date: 13:50:42 08/30/05

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On August 30, 2005 at 16:05:00, Alex Schmidt wrote:

>Hello,
>
>>on engine management uci tab I have selected common own book setting
>>and use own book
>
>Fruit has since v2.1 an own book, so Arena will perhaps not use the enginebook
>because of this.

So own book here is not configured arena engine book but the book that comes
with the engine
>
>>but I had wished to take advantage of the books you created
>
>Yes, but you should use my enginebooks together with a mainbook. The enginebook
>is something like a small tournament book, but there are many missing variants.

Yes I understand that

I just wanted to be sure the engine book was used

The mainbook works fine

the engine books do not seem to work
>
>Out of that there is a bug in Arena and it will play all bookmoves regardless if the move is activated or not. This weakenes the enginebooks a lot, thats why I removed them from my site.
>
>I suggest to use the own books of an engine. If the engine don't have an own
>book you can use the selected mainbook for all engines, or select for each
>engine a different book. If this really don't work for you, you could ask in the
>Arena Forum.

Ok thanks

Tom
>
>http://f22.parsimony.net/forum41668/
>
>Best,
>Alex



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