No, in fact Scid doesn't supply the book for the engine; I have the pattern
ones from Scid, and unless their best configurated answer to e4 is Nc6, I guess
they're not supplying anything to the engines...
> Date: Wed, 30 Dec 2009 20:06:06 +0100
> From: [email protected]
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Scid-users] hello
>
> Alexei Kovalczuk wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> > I just didn't exactly get the answer about books: by saying that scidlet
> > has a specific book, you mean that I don't need/can't use that .sbk book?
>
> Right. Except for Scidlet of course. It can use it's own
> book. But it would be better to use the polyglot books or
> generate one of your liking.
>
> > By the way, how do I add a book to an engine?
>
> This applies only ot xboard engines, and it depends on each
> engine itself. That's one of the nice things about UCI and
> about using the usual books in Scid. Still Scidlet will have
> some ini-file where you can set a certain parameter. (From
> my vague answer you can already guess that I don't use
> Scidlet at all.)
>
> > for example, I load stockfish for analysis coming from the
> > starting position, and its clear it doesn't have an
> > internal book...
>
> Here you don't need one it should be a uci engine and for
> uci engines Scid can supply the book by means of the usual
> book files that come with Scid already (packed in the books/
> subdir.)
>
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>
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