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Subject: Re: engine books

Author: Rick Andrews

Date: 19:43:52 11/27/05

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On November 27, 2005 at 18:06:37, Peter Eizenhammer wrote:

>On November 27, 2005 at 17:42:58, Horst Biewald wrote:
>
>>Good day Gentleman, a few days ago i posted a message concerning the use of
>>certain books that come with each engine. I am using Junior 9,and on the window
>>pane where it shows which book is currently active, it never shows the book that
>>comes with a particular engine. Junior 9 book is all that i ever see.
>>I am missing something. How for instance, would i know that the Fruit2.2.1 book
>>is being used? All i ever see is the Junior9 opening book.  Thanks very much!
>
>Ok, it is not that hard:
>If you activate the book for one side, for example Junior or any other CB
>engine,
>and it plays the moves without thinking till it is out of book:
>Great. It looks like it uses its (chessbase format) book, and we are happy about
>this engine.
>
>For the second non CB engine click away the "use book" in the CB interface.
>Well done.
>If it still plays moves without thinking: Great! It uses its own,
>probably not CB-format book and we are happy.
>
>(If not, then you will have to know how to activate the special own book of the
>second,
>non CB, UCI, WB~UCI ... engine, many engines, many problems, many solutions.
>In most cases one more click in the UCI options of the engine,
>or if you have real trouble you have to write a single line in an ini-file or
>simil. but it is often called "own book", "use book",  "book =
>\path\path\path\book.bok" ... )
>
>Ah, btw: the CB interface will n o t show the fruit book moves in the CB book
>window iirc. sorry for that ... There are other ways to look at such books in
>many cases, but it may be a little hard, and should not be necessary in most
>cases.
>
>Peter
Good explanation Peter,Can you do the same thing in the shredder classic gui
and could you give an example of what one of those ini -file lines would look
like ? Thanks, Rick



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