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Subject: Re: Crafty and books........

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:28:34 11/24/05

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On November 24, 2005 at 16:12:47, George Tsavdaris wrote:

> Can i use Crafty-A version against Crafty-B version to play, with these 2
>sharing the same book? Or do i have to put them into 2 different folders and
>copy the book twice........? I mean will there be any conflicts if they share at
>the same time the same book file?
>
>Also what command i should put on the Crafty.rc to indicate to Crafty that it
>plays against a computer? Does the "computer" command is enough......?

The main risk is book learning.  Since they are sharing a book if you don't put
them in two different folders with duplicate books, the updates done during
learning can corrupt the book, since it would be possible for both to try to do
a "learn update" at exactly the same time.  This has happened in the past
although it is not frequent...

You can either add learn=0 to turn learning off, so that sharing a book is OK,
or you can do as you mentioned and use two folders and two copies of
book.bin/books.bin/bookc.bin

The latter is the way I test...



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