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Subject: Re: Comet....book and resign ?

Author: Pete Galati

Date: 09:22:14 11/18/99

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On November 18, 1999 at 12:01:43, Chessfun wrote:

>On November 18, 1999 at 11:35:00, Chessfun wrote:
>
>>On November 18, 1999 at 05:26:18, Ulrich Tuerke wrote:
>>
>>>On November 18, 1999 at 02:08:08, Chessfun wrote:
>>>
>>>>Anyone know a location for finding a big book for comet and also how to set it
>>>>to resign at say eval -4 currently it will not resign.
>>>>Thanks.
>>>
>>>You can get the book for instance from Gambit-Soft or from Frank's page. It is
>>>contained in the older B.10 download.
>>>Resign option can be switched on or off thru the comet.ics init-file.
>>>
>>>Uli
>>
>>I have the B.10 D/L what I was trying to find is a bigger book.
>>I have switched resign option to on what will comet now resign at -?.
>>Thanks.
>
>I do notice comet will now resign, is there a way to get it to resign without it
>making a move. Ex it will resign but only after making a move.
>Thanks.

It's pretty standard to make the move and resign at the same time, it has done a
search and determined that it has been behind by a certain margin for a certain
amount of moves, so it has resigned, but it also provides the move that is the
best move that it has come up with.

Pete



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