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Ant_2005-C.exe wont read current opening book, neither will older A/B versions. (ant_nbook.rar)

console mode says: 'Bad line: book: 1 entries read'

It reads older small book in standard text format ok.

Do you have both BBook.ant and Book.ant (empty) in your Ant folder?

Leo.[/quote]

Hello Leo,
I've just checked..... I did'nt have book.ant - replaced it.

Now have book.ant (0 kbytes) and bbook.ant (6415 kbytes) in Ant folder.

Now get this from console ..

'reading ./book.ant
book: 0 entries read'

Strange, I just downloaded the book(s) and get:

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Welcome to the ANT (A New Try) Chess Program, Version: 2005-C
Chess Engine by: Tom Vijlbrief
Opening/Chess Knowledge by: Hans Secelle

Transposition table size: 49151 Kbytes
Reading ./book.ant
book: 0 entries read.
Found 0 pieces TB
16777216 TB hash
Command: random
Allow random is now: on
Command: tbdir d:\Nalimov
Enter Tablebases dir: TB dir is now: d:\Nalimov
Found 0 pieces TB
Command: forceahead
Command: e2e4

8 R N B Q K B N R
7 P P P P P P P P
6 - - - - - - - -
5 - - - - - - - -
4 - - - - p - - -
3 - - - - - - - -
2 p p p p - p p p
1 r n b q k b n r
  A B C D E F G H

Limit: 100000000 Used: 0
Reading ./bbook.ant
 a7a5 (1,50%) a7a6 (2,75%) b7b6 (25,40%) c7c5 (15232,46%) c7c6 (982,44%)
 d7d5 (240,48%) d7d6 (469,43%) e7e5 (10865,45%) e7e6 (1643,43%) f7f5 (1,50%)
 f7f6 (3,67%) g7g5 (1,50%) g7g6 (363,45%) h7h6 (2,25%) b8a6 (1,50%)
 b8c6 (70,45%) g8f6 (1407,45%) g8h6 (1,50%)
Cannot open: /tmp/ant.log
 1a 2/ 1  0:00 1          50.0  e7e5
TB: Probes:0 Hits:0
Hash: A:1 G:0 C:0; SE: A:0 G:0 C:0 Q:0
Eval: 0 Pos: 0 N/s: 1 Gen: 20 Q: 0 1: 0

8 R N B Q K B N R
7 P P P P - P P P
6 - - - - - - - -
5 - - - - P - - -
4 - - - - p - - -
3 - - - - - - - -
2 p p p p - p p p
1 r n b q k b n r
  A B C D E F G H

  1. ..... e7e5
Command:

Seems to work fine, are there others with this problem?

Leo

Oops! My mistake. Ant doesn't load it's book into memory, when first it's run, so first it reads:

book: 0 entries read

it loads/reads the book on it's first move.

Me:
b2b4

Ant:
reading .\bbook.ant
e7e5

Mystery solved! (for me anyway.)

Thanks for your help,

Regards,

Jim.