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Subject: Re: The Crazy Bishop

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 11:13:22 06/20/99

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On June 20, 1999 at 13:37:25, Andy Serpa wrote:

>Has anyone tried The Crazy Bishop lately?  (available at
>http://www-leibniz.imag.fr/~coulom/)  I have played it against every other
>Winboard engine I have (including Crafty, Little Goliath Gold, Arasan, etc.) and
>it has won every single game. (Long & short time controls)  It is not even using
>an opening book, but comes up with very strong moves right out of the opening.
>I'm impressed!
>
>Has anyone tried it against any commercial programs?  I'm too impatient to do it
>manually, switching back and forth...  I haven't heard anything about TCB in
>quite a while, but I guess it is still being developed...
>
>
>
>Andy Serpa
>renegade@earthling.net

TCB has been around for years. I don't actually remember by now why I no longer
have a copy. But I'm quite sure that you can compile an opening book for that
program. As it stands now without an opening book you are weekening the program
because it is useing alloted time to calculate out those opening moves and that
time could be better spent calculating moves later in the game. So you should
look into getting an opening book for TCB if you like it.

Pete



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