Re: opening book play, and -st options (gnuchess 4.0pl60, xboard2.0pl25)

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From: Jon Vander Hill
Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:07

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>>>>> On Tue, 12 Jan 1993 02:05:33 GMT, whaley@kpc.com (Ken Whaley) said:

> I'm trying to get the opening book working with gnu chess 4.0 pl60 and 
> xboard 2.0 pl 25.  I've built the .book.data file as instructed using
> gnuchessr -b gnuchess.book -B gnuchess.book.data -S (different numbers, e.g.,
> 5000)
> and gnuchessr says that the book is built.  I can't seem to get xboard 
> (or even the curses-based) to play through any of the openings in the
> book.

I've had some success with the following incantation to build the "GDX"
book as suggested in doc/BOOKFILES:

gnuchessr -b gnuchess.book -B gnuchess.book.data -S 450000

It takes a bit of time for this to complete.

Xboard 2.0.23 appears to play (very quickly) from book with this setup.

What I'd like to know, is how to set up gnuchess book to work
with the text book as before.  I really can't afford to store the
5+Mb .data binary file.

Jon Vander Hill
jon@cas.org

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