Old Little Goliaths engines and opening books

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Elorejano
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Old Little Goliaths engines and opening books

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Hi!
I need LG2000´s openings books.
They are Book.dat and Book.ind (or LGBOOK.dat and LGBOOK.ind)
Maybe theres some collectors from the good old times of Winboard Forum alive!
Gunther? Frank? Gabor?
Thanks in advance
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Unfortunately, the link to download the book has been removed.

I have a few different sets of Little Goliath books. I will PM you a link.
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Re: Old Little Goliaths engines and opening books

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Elorejano wrote: Sat Feb 23, 2019 5:31 am Hi!
I need LG2000´s openings books.
They are Book.dat and Book.ind (or LGBOOK.dat and LGBOOK.ind)
Maybe theres some collectors from the good old times of Winboard Forum alive!
Gunther? Frank? Gabor?
Thanks in advance
If you still need it I can upload it for you (book for old WB version of LG2000 3.9)

BTW books for the newer UCI versions are still there at its homepage, if you download the 'full installation' (there are two of them)
http://www.goliathchess.de/home.html

There is a caveat though the latest book had an enormous bug and therefore was retreated it seems.
IIRC it contained hashkeys, which made the program even in late endgame or middlegame play a blundermove from book,
while being no real book move.
(BTW you can easily extract the installation files with 7zip and just grab the book file - no need for a real installation)

I am sure there are still bug reports for this in the WB forum.
https://rwbc-chess.de

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Elorejano
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Re: Old Little Goliaths engines and opening books

Post by Elorejano »

Thanks Gunther and Tony, as always
It should fantastic if you can post those openigs books.
Btw, gunther has right about openings books of UCI versions, but the oldest have a reasonable efficience.
Im a bookmaker, and i need those and others books for to test mines.
Thanks in advance
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Re: Old Little Goliaths engines and opening books

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Elorejano wrote: Sat Feb 23, 2019 2:01 pm Thanks Gunther and Tony, as always
It should fantastic if you can post those openigs books.
Btw, gunther has right about openings books of UCI versions, but the oldest have a reasonable efficience.
Im a bookmaker, and i need those and others books for to test mines.
Thanks in advance
I will add a link at my homepage in around 4 hours, if Tony isn't faster before ;-)
(walking out in the winter sun now with Monika)
https://rwbc-chess.de

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Re: Old Little Goliaths engines and opening books

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Thanks Tony! Ive received your PM.
BTW, if you have xxx.FBK books (except Fritz4) would be welcome.
Thanks for your efforts