Author: Peter Eizenhammer
Date: 13:24:29 11/28/05
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>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 Hi Rick, Shredder (classic) uses books named *.bkt (for book tree). You see the moves from these books in the book panel, if one is loaded. There are two options you can reach by right clicking into the book panel. Something like opening book and engine book. opening book means a bkt book and is handled by the Shredder GUI, not by the engine itself. engine book means the specific book of an engine, (guess it works for UCI engines only, in Arena for example one can activate this directly via the UCI-options dialog). Test it: Deactivate opening book and activate engine book: If your engine still makes moves immediatly, it finds its own book, and it is ok. (If not, you may have deleted or renamed or moved the book, who knows ....) the other way round it should get all its moves by the Shredder GUI and not use its own book. As I never use own books I dont know the priority, if both options are on. But some trying should make this clear soon enough. For Winboard only engines the clickable options dont work at all, thats why uci is so fine ;-) Look at these lines from the ufim701.ini: ; If book=1 then Ufim uses the opening book (ufim701.bok). ; If book=0 then Ufim does not use books. ; However, ufim701.bok must be present even if it is not used. book=1 lines with ; at the beginning are comments (this can be a different character in diff.engines). If you want Ufim to use its book: take care that there is no ; as first char in this line: book=1. (it can still work, because of default settings, but this is the general rule). set book=0 if ufim is to play without book, for ex in nunn matches How do I know if it is an UCI engine? (rtfm, no, delete this) double click the ufim.exe, crafty.exe etc and enter uci in the appearing "dosbox". uci engines show their options, wb engines dont know the command and say sorry or nothing, or create a nice bluescreen if they have a bad day, no, just kidding. (some engines support both uci and Wb.) Hope it helps. Peter
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