xboard and gnuchess book

[Just Anidiot]

Hi,

Thanks for xboard.  It is really great.  I've been using it for years.

I just compiled it on RHEL 5 along with gnuchess.   When I would play,
it would think quite a while on the opening moves.  This wasn't the
behavior before, so I started poking around.  Running gnuchess in a
terminal window also seemed to exhibit this behavior.

Then I discovered that I didn't download the book which use to be
included in gnuchess but is now a separate download.  I added the book
to gnuchess.  In the terminal window it now almost instantaneously
plays the first several moves.  However using xboard it still thinks
for up to 10 seconds on the opening moves (it also every single time
plays the exact same variation of the Scandinavian opening).   It
doesn't appear to be using the book when using xboard.

I'm invoking xboard simply by typing "xboard -size Medium" on the
command line.  I've tried a couple of different options including
something like 'xboard -fcp "/usr/local/bin/gnuchess --xboard" -fd
"/usr/local/bin" -scp "/usr/local/bin/gnuchess --xboard" -sd
"/usr/local/bin" -size Medium'  So far nothing seems to be helping.

Is there something I'm doing wrong?  Can you help me figure this out?

Thanks in advance.


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[chessknight]

Are you using gnuchess 5 or 4? What is the name of your book file, is it located
in the same directory as gnuchess?

-Mark

Just Anidiot wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Thanks for xboard.  It is really great.  I've been using it for years.
>
> I just compiled it on RHEL 5 along with gnuchess.   When I would play,
> it would think quite a while on the opening moves.  This wasn't the
> behavior before, so I started poking around.  Running gnuchess in a
> terminal window also seemed to exhibit this behavior.
>
> Then I discovered that I didn't download the book which use to be
> included in gnuchess but is now a separate download.  I added the book
> to gnuchess.  In the terminal window it now almost instantaneously
> plays the first several moves.  However using xboard it still thinks
> for up to 10 seconds on the opening moves (it also every single time
> plays the exact same variation of the Scandinavian opening).   It
> doesn't appear to be using the book when using xboard.
>
> I'm invoking xboard simply by typing "xboard -size Medium" on the
> command line.  I've tried a couple of different options including
> something like 'xboard -fcp "/usr/local/bin/gnuchess --xboard" -fd
> "/usr/local/bin" -scp "/usr/local/bin/gnuchess --xboard" -sd
> "/usr/local/bin" -size Medium'  So far nothing seems to be helping.
>
> Is there something I'm doing wrong?  Can you help me figure this out?
>
> Thanks in advance.
>
>
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[chessknight]

And you compiled that pgn file into the dat file with the 'book add' command?

I thought as long as the book.dat file was in the same directory that gnuchess5 launches from, it would use it. You might check the gnuchess5 README to see if there are any clues there.

-Mark

 -------------- Original message ----------------------
From: "Just Anidiot" <jistanidiot@...>

> Thanks for the quick reply.
>
> I'm using 5.07.  The file name is book_1.01.pgn and is in the
> /opt/src/gnuchess-5.07/book directory.
>
> On 6/21/07, Mark Ioli <chessknight@...> wrote:
> > Are you using gnuchess 5 or 4? What is the name of your book file, is it
> located
> > in the same directory as gnuchess?
> >
> > -Mark
> >
> > Just Anidiot wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Thanks for xboard.  It is really great.  I've been using it for years.
> > >
> > > I just compiled it on RHEL 5 along with gnuchess.   When I would play,
> > > it would think quite a while on the opening moves.  This wasn't the
> > > behavior before, so I started poking around.  Running gnuchess in a
> > > terminal window also seemed to exhibit this behavior.
> > >
> > > Then I discovered that I didn't download the book which use to be
> > > included in gnuchess but is now a separate download.  I added the book
> > > to gnuchess.  In the terminal window it now almost instantaneously
> > > plays the first several moves.  However using xboard it still thinks
> > > for up to 10 seconds on the opening moves (it also every single time
> > > plays the exact same variation of the Scandinavian opening).   It
> > > doesn't appear to be using the book when using xboard.
> > >
> > > I'm invoking xboard simply by typing "xboard -size Medium" on the
> > > command line.  I've tried a couple of different options including
> > > something like 'xboard -fcp "/usr/local/bin/gnuchess --xboard" -fd
> > > "/usr/local/bin" -scp "/usr/local/bin/gnuchess --xboard" -sd
> > > "/usr/local/bin" -size Medium'  So far nothing seems to be helping.
> > >
> > > Is there something I'm doing wrong?  Can you help me figure this out?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > >
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> >

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