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Re: book.dat

#1880
From: Simon Waters
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:44
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Goswin Brederlow wrote:
> 
> Couldn't find anything about it on
> http://www.gnu.org/software/chess/chess_faq.html

It has to be in the "right" directory at the moment.

"right" being the current directory of the top of my head.

i.e. If you run "xboard -fcp "/usr/local/bin/gnuchess"
-fd"/usr/local/lib/gnuchess"

Put book.dat in /usr/local/lib/gnuchess

Apologies if you run Windows, but you can work out the analogous
settings with winboard.

The current directory should be writable for the person running
the program if you want logs, and game archive running with
relevant options.


Stefan has volunteered to sort out the PGN file, Thanks!

There were nearly 25,000 duplicate games in there

Before I gave it to Stefan I dropped, or corrected, all the
games that give errors on compiling the book, and dropped all
duplicates (SCID is a brilliant piece of free software!), and
cleaned up players names (SCID is a brilliant piece of free
software!), so the mistakes if any probably won't be Stefan's
fault but mind ;)

We'll release a cleaner and better book with 5.03 - promise.

Although if it gets much bigger we might be tempted to release
it in SCID not PGN format?!
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Subject: Re: book.dat
Date: Thu, 17 Jan 2002 09:44:02 +0000
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