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A couple minor things, the book.dat that you included with Winboard is the one
that came out of the "src" directory, there's something wrong with it, that's why
the trouble with 1. P-K4, you need to compile a new book with the book.pgn file
in the "book" directory.    In the mean time, anyone that wants to get a copy can
get it from what I compiled with Winboard's new GNU5 by clicking this:
http://members.xoom.com/avochess/GNUBOOK.ZIP

And the other thing is that it needs xboard as a command line parrameter, so what
I have in my winboard.ini is this: \"GNUches5 xboard\" /fd=c:\\winboard

edit that to fit the path info about where you install Winboard of course.

Thanks Tim, I didn't even notice that showing up with Winboard, and since the
Winboard installs don't overwrite my old ini file (that's good!) there was no
clues in there that anything was different.    I did notice the size of the
Winboard download was bigger though, I was wondering why that happened, must have
been from the extra engine!

Pete Galati


Tim Mann wrote:

> WinBoard 4.0.5 comes with a compiled version of GNU Chess 5.00.  It's
> available from my Web page.  I left it using the default amount of hashtable,
> so it should work fine on smaller machines.  There's something odd about
> the book -- for instance, it doesn't seem to find a book response to 1.
> e4 -- but I don't know why.  I don't know anything about the internals
> of GNU Chess 5.00; I just grabbed the source and pushed it through the
> Cygwin (gcc) compiler.
>
> Tim Mann  <mann@pa.dec.com>  Compaq Systems Research Center
> http://www.research.compaq.com/SRC/personal/Tim_Mann/