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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