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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