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Subject: Re: Building Crafty from source code vs running executable

Author: J. Wesley Cleveland

Date: 22:17:06 07/16/99

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On July 17, 1999 at 00:42:01, Steve Strickland wrote:

>Can anyone explain to me why someone would want to download the source code
>files and build Crafty from the source code, rather than simply downloading the
>executable and book files?  Am I missing something?
>

Three reasons:
1. You are not running windows and have to compile for your machine.
2. You want to know how a chess program works, so you look at the source.
3. You think you can make some changes and make it play better (not likely, but
it is fun to try.

>Also the large book consists of four files.  How do you make them into a single
>opening book?
>
unzip them, then at a dos prompt, type

copy large1.pgn+large2.pgn+large3.pgn+large4.pgn large.pgn

then use the book command to create a book from this.

All this is explained better in the read.me and crafty.doc



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