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[by phhnguyen] Perhaps, it is much easier if we only turn on/off using books for bots, say, a bot will have a checkbox to denote use or not use books (you can check it for normal engines and uncheck for NN engines). If you think it is good enough, I may add it to the next release. Yes, do think it'...

Great work. If you do allow a bot to be assigned an opening book, would you extend the facility to allow the GUI to assign a book to any engine, without requiring the opponent's engine to also be assigned a book. One engine plays with book, the other does not. For example, a neural-net engine does n...

Thanks for responding so quickly. Below is an example to clarify. Want to set up a game between Stockfish and Lc0. Neither engine has an own-book UCI setting. But, can Banksia be set to play opening moves from, say, Perfect2019.bin for Stockfish, and, say, Noomen_2Ply_Book.pgn for Lc0? If not, plea...

Is it possible to assign a different opening book to each competing engine? Or even an opening book to one engine only? Your question is a bit ambiguous thus I divide it into a few cases: 1) If you mean assigning manually (by users): YES. Every engine can be set via its parameters and options. They...

Is it possible to assign a different opening book to each competing engine?
Or even an opening book to one engine only?

rvida wrote:[...](Now I cannot recall how I had managed to write and debug Z80 machine code 20 years ago...[...]

Now that brings back memories... of THIRTY years ago!

Will update my Ladder.

Your work is much appreciated.

Regards.

Twenty-four games added (from Ladder Challenges #41 and #42). Total 864 . All games show current ratings, if over 3000. Principal variation included in game output. 7-Zip file can be downloaded (compressed, but still 5.7MB). Know sample size is still small. Engines with less than 30 games shown sepa...

Ratings updated after 84 games added. Now 840 in total, each with a time control of 90 minutes each side. Principal variation included in game output. 7-Zip file can be downloaded (compressed, but still 5.6MB). Know sample size is small.

Engines with less than 30 games shown separately.

Fire 1.31 overtakes Critter 0.90 on ladder, finishing 7.5-4.5 ahead.