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

Author: Ulrich Tuerke

Date: 00:10:10 11/19/99

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On November 18, 1999 at 12:22:14, Pete Galati wrote:

>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.

even bigger than the 5 MB ? doesn't exist. But you can create yourself from a
pgn file.

>>>I have switched resign option to on what will comet now resign at -?.

If I remember correctly, it's -10. But also some additional conditions must be
true (e.g. minimum number of nodes must have been searched). When there is only
one legal move, Comet moves immediately and does not have a reliable evaluation.

>>>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.

That's right. Thanks for the perfect explanation, Pete.

Uli

>
>Pete



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