Author: Francis Monkman
Date: 12:19:12 06/20/99
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On June 20, 1999 at 14:13:22, Pete Galati wrote: >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 The Winboard version (43) comes with a 10k (ie minimal) book.
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