Author: Brian McKinley
Date: 17:47:22 04/06/98
I am working on a losers chess program and it plays very poorly in the opening. The program does not currently support an opening book. I would like to collect games of strong players on ICC and build an opening book based on these games, but I am not sure how to go about it. I have seen references here and one ICC that lead me to believe that the most common method for creating an opening book is from a game database. Are there any utilities available to help me in this endeavor? If so what format do they require the games data to be in, and how do I get to that format from pgn? Is the format of the opening book output documented or is there example code to read it? If there are no utilities available, is there any other criteria I should consider besides win vs. loss when determining whether to include the opening moves in the book? Thanks in advance Brian
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