Comet B.23, LINUX, DOS, WinBoard, new opening book is ...

[Frank Quisinsky]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 14 June 2000 00:29:54:
available.
The first Comet Linux version !
More in my News Ticker and ...
Download Page !
Have a nice day !
Regards
Frank

[Mogens Larsen]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Mogens Larsen at 14 June 2000 02:00:13:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Comet B.23, LINUX, DOS, WinBoard, new opening book is ... geschrieben von: / posted by: Frank Quisinsky at 14 June 2000 00:29:54:

available.
The first Comet Linux version !
More in my News Ticker and ...
Download Page !
Have a nice day !
Regards
Frank

I really like updates, but couldn't it be at a slightly slower pace? And Ulrich, do you need to change the book everytime? )
Best wishes...
Mogens

[Aaron]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Aaron at 14 June 2000 14:21:33:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Comet B.23, LINUX, DOS, WinBoard, new opening book is ... geschrieben von: / posted by: Mogens Larsen at 14 June 2000 02:00:13:

I really like updates, but couldn't it be at a slightly slower pace? And
Ulrich, do you need to change the book everytime? )

Well..Yes, the updates are very fast now..But that's because, they are so many winboard engines now! But some engines I notice have a extremly short update cycle..
I suppose he works very hard with his book..Some programmers do , others don;t..But I don't think 2Mb is not that bad even for those using the slowest modems..
Does Comet have book learning? Perhaps instead of downloading every thing new, just downloading a small learning file like for crafty from version to version would be more efficent?

[U.Türke]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: U.Türke at 14 June 2000 14:50:21:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Comet B.23, LINUX, DOS, WinBoard, new opening book is ... geschrieben von: / posted by: Mogens Larsen at 14 June 2000 02:00:13:

available.
The first Comet Linux version !
More in my News Ticker and ...
Download Page !
Have a nice day !
Regards
Frank

I really like updates, but couldn't it be at a slightly slower pace? And Ulrich, do you need to change the book everytime? )
Best wishes...
Mogens

It's only an offer. You don't have to download the complete thing each time.
Whenever I have filled some big hole in the book, I append it to the update.
I admit that it would be nicer to have a kind of incremental update here. I'll think about it.
Uli

[Mogens Larsen]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Mogens Larsen at 14 June 2000 14:53:02:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Comet B.23, LINUX, DOS, WinBoard, new opening book is ... geschrieben von: / posted by: Aaron at 14 June 2000 14:21:33:

Well..Yes, the updates are very fast now..But that's because, they are so many winboard engines now! But some engines I notice have a extremly short update cycle..
I suppose he works very hard with his book..Some programmers do , others don;t..But I don't think 2Mb is not that bad even for those using the slowest modems..
Does Comet have book learning? Perhaps instead of downloading every thing new, just downloading a small learning file like for crafty from version to version would be more efficent?

I was commenting on the comet update cycle not updates in general. But obviously it's better with frequent updates than none at all.
I agree, which is why I placed a smiley at the end of the sentence. I don't pay per minute but by traffic, so the time used for downloading is unimportant.
Comet do have learning file, but I don't know if it's book and position. It's called comet.lrn and the size is fixed at 641Kb.
Best wishes...
Mogens

[Aaron]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Aaron at 14 June 2000 15:21:44:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Comet B.23, LINUX, DOS, WinBoard, new opening book is ... geschrieben von: / posted by: Mogens Larsen at 14 June 2000 14:53:02:

Well..Yes, the updates are very fast now..But that's because, they are so >>many winboard engines now! But some engines I notice have a extremly short >>update cycle..
I suppose he works very hard with his book..Some programmers do , others >don;t..But I don't think 2Mb is not that bad even for those using the slowest >modems..

I was commenting on the comet update cycle not updates in general. But >obviously it's better with frequent updates than none at all.
I agree, which is why I placed a smiley at the end of the sentence. I don't >pay per minute but by traffic, so the time used for downloading is unimportant.

Well I used to have student access for free using a 33.6 Modem, now I'm using a cable modem, it costs around S$70 or maybe US$50 per month, but unlimited

[Pete Galati]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: Pete Galati at 14 June 2000 15:48:43:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Comet B.23, LINUX, DOS, WinBoard, new opening book is ... geschrieben von: / posted by: U.Türke at 14 June 2000 14:50:21:

available.
The first Comet Linux version !
More in my News Ticker and ...
Download Page !
Have a nice day !
Regards
Frank

I really like updates, but couldn't it be at a slightly slower pace? And Ulrich, do you need to change the book everytime? )
Best wishes...
Mogens

It's only an offer. You don't have to download the complete thing each time.
Whenever I have filled some big hole in the book, I append it to the update.
I admit that it would be nicer to have a kind of incremental update here. I'll think about it.
Uli

I'd say keep sending the new books whenever you update them. Like you said, they're optional updates for the person doing the downloads anyhow.
I assume that the same opening book(s) for the MS OS Comet also work with the new Linux version of Comet, is that true?
Pete

[U.Türke]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: U.Türke at 14 June 2000 20:28:31:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Comet B.23, LINUX, DOS, WinBoard, new opening book is ... geschrieben von: / posted by: Pete Galati at 14 June 2000 15:48:43:

available.
The first Comet Linux version !
More in my News Ticker and ...
Download Page !
Have a nice day !
Regards
Frank

I really like updates, but couldn't it be at a slightly slower pace? And Ulrich, do you need to change the book everytime? )
Best wishes...
Mogens

It's only an offer. You don't have to download the complete thing each time.
Whenever I have filled some big hole in the book, I append it to the update.
I admit that it would be nicer to have a kind of incremental update here. I'll think about it.
Uli

I'd say keep sending the new books whenever you update them. Like you said, they're optional updates for the person doing the downloads anyhow.
I assume that the same opening book(s) for the MS OS Comet also work with the new Linux version of Comet, is that true?
Pete

Yes, you may use the same comet.hbk, comet.lbk and comet.sbk files. In contrast to win-dos you have to take care to use small letters for the file names since unix is case-sensitive.
Uli

[U.Türke]

Geschrieben von: / Posted by: U.Türke at 14 June 2000 20:32:21:
Als Antwort auf: / As an answer to: Re: Comet B.23, LINUX, DOS, WinBoard, new opening book is ... geschrieben von: / posted by: Mogens Larsen at 14 June 2000 14:53:02:

Well..Yes, the updates are very fast now..But that's because, they are so many winboard engines now! But some engines I notice have a extremly short update cycle..
I suppose he works very hard with his book..Some programmers do , others don;t..But I don't think 2Mb is not that bad even for those using the slowest modems..
Does Comet have book learning? Perhaps instead of downloading every thing new, just downloading a small learning file like for crafty from version to version would be more efficent?

I was commenting on the comet update cycle not updates in general. But obviously it's better with frequent updates than none at all.
I agree, which is why I placed a smiley at the end of the sentence. I don't pay per minute but by traffic, so the time used for downloading is unimportant.
Comet do have learning file, but I don't know if it's book and position. It's called comet.lrn and the size is fixed at 641Kb.
Best wishes...
Mogens

No book learning (yet) in comet. The comet.lrn is used in early middle-game to save some interesting (hopefully) snapshots of hashtable-entries with large depth, in particular when fail-low cases have been occuring.
Uli