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Subject: Re: CM8000 opening book question to john merlino

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 20:33:19 02/15/01

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On February 15, 2001 at 22:03:43, jonas cohonas wrote:

>On February 15, 2001 at 21:22:05, David Dahlem wrote:
>
>>I decided to create an opening book in CM8000 that would make opening moves like
>>a specific GM. I created two pgn files, one for all the games of this GM as
>>white and one as black. Then using the new pgn import options in CM8000, I
>>imported the white.pgn and selected import moves as white and selected wins.
>>After this imported, i checked the tree, and black's moves are weighted, some
>>weighted at 100. I didn't see any sense in continuing to import the black.pgn.
>>Maybe i misunderstand how this is supposed to work. But why would the import
>>moves as white also weight blacks moves?
>>
>>Dave
>
>When i use the import .pgn mode when trying to create a book
>i get an import error message, no matter what file i choose to import.
>Can you please help me?
>
>Regards
>Jonas

I have had that happen a lot too. I discovered the reason is either the pgn is
too large or there is one or more games with illegal moves. After tracking down
the illegal moves or reducing the size of the pgn, it had eventually worked for
me.

Dave



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