Author: Brian Kostick
Date: 03:58:45 01/11/01
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On January 09, 2001 at 18:03:06, Daniel Chancey wrote: >I believe a major opening book should be created or a possibility that rebel, >junior, shredder, or fritz books that will work with Chessmaster. > >The small opening book is not going to last forever and Alas, I have given up >trying to help the team for the time being. > >Is there anyone you could hire that can help build The "Ultimate" Chessmaster >book? > >Castle2000 I first would like to say I'm not here to complain, enough has been done already in regard to CM8K. I do have some observations and questions should anyone care to read. I haven't been able to build a book larger than 128kb. I think that's the upper limit with the CM8K supplied PGN-to-book tool. I observe that Mentor and Reference books are larger than this but I suspect that is because they have embedded commentary, not to mention they likely were made with other tools. I have made a book from PGN with games rated 2641 and above (both players). Some might consider this OK, some may not. Some of the Ultimate book questions might be: 1.Should all the supplied lines extend to blacks 15th move? This "appears" to be the upper limit, at least as far as what I can see displayed. Perhaps even with good rated games the damage may have already been dealt by this time. A good book would stop short of this point. The experienced book-maker would know more than I. 2.Would your "Ultimate" book be tuned to provide Pro-Chess-Engine moves, play most common lines (modern and historical), or only the modern undisputed lines? I'm sure there are more considerations but answers to these would be a start to building your "Ultimate" book, which might not be ideal for some other purpose or person.
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