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Subject: Re: Question for Bob: Crafty opening book

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 15:42:30 06/08/98

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On June 08, 1998 at 16:47:20, Edward Screven wrote:

>On June 08, 1998 at 07:36:10, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On June 08, 1998 at 02:58:23, Roland Pfister wrote:
>>
>>>... would it be possible for you to create a Crafty book from your
>>>large PGN file (you call it decent :-) and then create a PGN file
>>>from the opening book that does not contain the singular lines
>>>that are not used anyway ...
>>>
>>>Roland
>>
>>yes.  I'm going to do this, in fact.  The only issue is that I am
>>going to use the {comment} stuff to include wins/losses/draws, so it
>>will remain standard PGN ...
>
>why not represent the result summary as a normal pgn header tag?
>that way existing general purpose pgn processing software won't
>have to be modified to understand special comments.  something
>like
>
>    [Result-Summary "231/224/304"]
>    1. e4 e5 *
>
>(hopefully with longer lines!)
>
>  - edward


that will lose a lot of information.  IE 1. e4 will have a big number
of games, but by the time you get to move 10, the number of times that
move is played will shrink.  I don't see another easy way to do this,
although most programs should ignore { xxx yyy zzz } type comments and
they would still get a usable book.  Other ideas are welcome, however.



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