Goswin> An even better way would be the following: Goswin> 1. keep the original book. Goswin> 2. put newly learned stuff into a different file, a book-diff one Goswin> could say. This could be in ~/.crafty/ or next to the original book Goswin> depending on a debconf question and overridable by the users Goswin> config. No need for your grandmaster chessplayer user to ruin Goswin> crafty for everyone else.
I am afraid crafty beats non-grandmasters with or without a book :-) Anyway, from what I remember crafty can only use 1 book during a game, so your suggestion can't be implemented without modifying the binary. Goswin> PS: any chance of using the same format as chess for books? Once 30MB Goswin> should be enough for both. Unfortunately not - each of the 3 engines I know of in debian (gnuchess, crafty, phalanx) uses a different format. -- Ian Zimmerman, Oakland, California, U.S.A. GPG: 433BA087 9C0F 194F 203A 63F7 B1B8 6E5A 8CA3 27DB 433B A087 EngSoc adopts market economy: cheap is wasteful, efficient is expensive.
