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Subject: Re: engine books

Author: Rick Andrews

Date: 15:54:34 11/28/05

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On November 28, 2005 at 16:24:29, Peter Eizenhammer wrote:

>
>>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

Thanks Peter, It was very helpful.
Rick



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