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Subject: Re: Still no luck creating a functional book under shredder5!!

Author: Jonas Cohonas

Date: 12:44:32 06/09/01

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On June 09, 2001 at 15:38:26, Mogens Larsen wrote:

>On June 09, 2001 at 15:15:37, Jonas Cohonas wrote:
>
>>I have managed to set up some quite complicated stuff, bearing in mind i am
>>selftaught in computers and have no formal training, i have an automated account
>>at FICS with both winboard and chessbase running perfect, i have managed to
>>setup (with the help of odd) theking to run under chessbase, but creating a
>>working book under shredder5.... not to save my life!!
>>
>>Can anyone tell me a step by step foolproof way of compiling a book under
>>shredder5?? or is it designed in such a fashion that you give into buying the
>>additional books from millenium? :-)
>
>I remember having some difficulties similar to yours. But since it's a while
>back, I can't quite recall what I did to fix them. Maybe something like this
>would work:
>
>1) Create book (not a lot of different ways to do that).
>2) Load opening book, enable opening book (probably default) and disable engine
>book.
>3) Clear book learning and result learning, because learn files from a previous
>book might interfere with the new one.
>4) Select engine and play a game. Does it work?
>
>Not a lot of secret spells involved here, so you've probably tried this already
>without success. If your problem persists, I'll try to create one and mail the
>details of success or failure :-).
>
>Mogens.

Well this i had not tried before, but one problem is that i cannot uncheck "use
engine book" the only option (of 4) i can check and uncheck are "use opening
book" the other 3 are grey and are checked by default :-(

Regards
Jonas



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