Pascal Georges wrote:
Hi!
> > Yes, I got it and now crafty works, except that it's unable to open
> > book.bin and books.bin, any idea about this?
> >
> Not sure, really. They're not in the scid tree and their installation
> is commented out in Makefile.conf. You can probably got to the crafty
> site and download them and put them in crafty's working directory.
> Pascal?
>
> Crafty books format has changed since version 20 (I think).
Yepp. One has to create a new book. I could supply one or
the docs howto.
> So they are not in Scid's tree because I followed the same
> way as for UCI engines (this is defined in UCI protocol)
> : the UI (Scid) handles books for all engines, which
> simplifies things a lot.
Ahm, crafty is no UCI engine and I do not know of a
mechanism how to use a general book using xboard protocol.
AFAIK this is a major difference between the two. (Plus
pondering.) How did you accomplish to handle the book for
crafty?
> But I don't understand the problem you have : if the
> books.bin are not present, Crafty should work, and you can
> analyse with it and play against it.
Well the opening might be a bit strange then ;)
> Having said that, maybe Crafty should be removed from Scid's
> distribution as :
> - it is not GPLed;
> - its compilation is a bit difficult on some platform.
As far as I can see this is the state of cvs.
Not that I dislike crafty (the opposite) but I appreciate a
clearer distinction between scid and the engines is a good
thing in general.
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