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Stockfish 8 still limited to french defense

I want to play the highest computer difficulty. I don't want to play the french defense 98% (literally) of the time after 1.e4.
The other 1.9% are 1.e5 and the rest 1.c5.
Please tweak the opening play of the engine and make it more varied. The problem seems to be less severe after 1.d4 or when playing black.
Not really a fix but you can set the position to which every opening you want in the board editor and continue from there against stockfish level 8. It is pretty good for practising openings and stuff.
Yes I know but it's tedious and it will still heavily favor one or at most two lines in 90% of games. It needs to randomly choose from book moves or there has to be a random variable implemented that allows it to choose from moves other than the engine's top choice at the moment of the move to add real variety.

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