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Subject: Re: CM8000 opening book creation

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 22:25:53 12/04/00

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>>How are the moves in the book selected? Is it frequency of the moves in the
>>book? Does the win/lose/draw score from the imported pgn  have any effect on the
>>selection of moves?
>
>The default criteria is frequency, but that is only for setting the PRIORITY of
>the move in the book. As far as I know, ALL moves found are placed in the book,
>and only the most common ones get a high(er) priority. But, the patch that I
>mentioned above will also allow you to change the criteria of the priority to
>any of several possibilities (game result, capture frequency, early queen moves,
>pawn moves, gambits, game length, and perhaps others).
>
>jm

Thanks. I will wait for the patch and create my new books then.

Dave



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