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Richard King wrote:
> 
> I'm playing around with winboard 4.0.5, having just installed it.  It
> seems as though gnuchess 5.0 is not using the opening book.  The reason
> I say that is because it takes gnuchess 4.0 no time to respond to my
> opening move (e4), while gnuchess takes 12 seconds to respond to the
> same opening move.  Also, when I ask for "help, book ...", gnuchess 4.0
> (within winboard, of course) gives a list of moves, while gnuchess 5.0
> seems to ignore me.  I would have thought my explicitly asking it to
> look in the book would have, at least, lead to a "what book?" response,
> so I'm not sure what ignoring me means.  book.dat is there, so the file
> isn't missing.  Any ideas?
> 
> Richard.

Try a download of the book that I compiled for GNU5, it should fix the
problem  http://members.xoom.com/avochess/GNUBOOK.ZIP

Also, GNU5 is very new, it doesn't incorporate all Winboard commands
yet, maybe never will?	It's a nice Chess program though.

Pete

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