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Subject: Re: Two games against a weakened CSTal 2

Author: Mike Agnos

Date: 16:10:46 09/15/05

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On September 14, 2005 at 23:05:16, Neil Schemenauer wrote:

>On September 14, 2005 at 20:07:13, Mike Agnos wrote:
>>Neil, did you get this version by download?  I have it too, from AI Factory.
>
>Yes.
>
>> But this version, at least the one I downloaded, has no opening book!
>
>Mine has a file called opening.bok.  It's binary data but contains the string
>"Oxford Softworks Opening Book" (or something similar).  Whether it is actually
>used is another question.  Probably some experimentation would provide answers.
>I suspect it does not use a book when the "reduce strength" option is used.
>
>>All of these versions work fine on Win XP with Service Pack 2.
>
>Works fine on my XP machine as well.  I don't like the board and pieces to much
>(a little hard on the eyes).  I may try to hack them at some point.  Another
>idea was to try to reverse engineer the engine DLL so I could implement at UCI
>interface to it.  Sadly, I have no time right now to dig into that.
>
>  Neil


Hi Neil
No working opening book in my AI Factory version, no matter what strength level.
10 Pro Board Games and Tournament Chess both have much better pieces and boards.
 And they have the opening book!

warm regards
Mikey



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