Fw: Re: Fw: [Bug-XBoard] Problem with book

[Tim Mann]

Forwarding this to the list so that it gets archived...

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Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 13:27:48 -0500 (EST)
From: Rudy <address@hidden>
To: address@hidden
Subject: Re: Fw: [Bug-XBoard] Problem with book


thanks. A good clue ... (-fcp /usr/local/bin fails; adding gnuchess
works but restricts moves to the book openings). copied book.dat
to my home directory; made "chess" = 'cd; xboard;' and that works. 
So thanks!

>Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:19:02 -0800
>From: Tim Mann <address@hidden>
>To: address@hidden
>Cc: address@hidden, Rudy <address@hidden>
>Subject: Fw: [Bug-XBoard] Problem with book
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>Rudy -- Maybe you have to include "-fcp /usr/local/bin" on the xboard
>command line, if that's where GNU Chess 5 put its book.  Maybe the
>default install looks for the book in the current directory rather than
>in the pathname where it installs it.  This is really an issue with GNU
>Chess's "make install", though, not with xboard, so I'm forwarding your
>question to bug-gnu-chess.
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>Date: Fri, 19 Dec 2003 10:35:33 -0500 (EST)
>From: Rudy <address@hidden>
>To: address@hidden
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>Subject: [Bug-XBoard] Problem with book
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>Hi:
>
>I just installed gnuchess-5.07.tar and  xboard-4.2.7.tar on a machine running 
>Solaris 9 with CDE. Everything ran as expected except with respect to
>book_1.00.pgn.
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>book add book.pgn (after mv book_100.pgn book.pgn; ./gnuchess) produced 
book.dat 
>and a copy ended up in /usr/local/bin after make install ran.
>
>However when I start xboard and enter the first move the system takes
>a very long time (10 seconds) to return P-Q4 to my P-K4 and seems to have
>to re-invent standard openings on the fly. I'm guessing it's not using
>the book, but I don't know how to "book on" using xboard. 
>
>Could you please tell me what I did wrong here?
>
>Rudy de Haas
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Rudy de Haas
www.edpstaff.com 
1-519-896-2560 EDT

Author (As Paul Murphy) of:
LinuxInsider.com column on Unix and Telecom
The Unix Guide to defenestration (see www.winface.com )
Multiple Linuxworld.com Series on Linux and business issues



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