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Subject: Re: CM8000 opening book question to john merlino

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 20:36:45 02/15/01

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On February 15, 2001 at 23:33:19, David Dahlem wrote:

>
>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

Forgot to mention i also run the pgn through extract to remove comments,
variations, and nags. This will sometimes help.

Dave



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