Author: Brian Katz
Date: 08:53:45 05/17/02
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On May 16, 2002 at 17:17:59, Terry McCracken wrote: >The openings book on the Hiarcs8 CD was generated by merging the original >tournament book of Eric Hallsworth with a big collection of historic and modern >master games. This broad book is fine for training and fun. However the master >games contain and enable many inferior lines which Hiarcs should not play >according to its tournament book. > >To get optimum playing strength of Hiarcs8, you should always use the enclosed >pure tournament book consisting entirely of variations compiled by Eric >Hallsworth. Please proceed as follows: > >1. Create an empty openings book by calling Menu File -> New -> Openings book. >2. Call Menu Edit -> Book -> Import old book and select "H8.hbk". > >The importing process will take a few minutes at most. > > >Ok these are the instructions, however I'm having a problem, due to lack of >expertise of course! > >1. Create an empty openings book by calling Menu File -> New -> Openings book. > >Ok here's my first snag, at step 1, Exactly what should I do here as when I go >to Menu File -> New -> Openings book, I get my Hiarcs 8 ctg. and I'm not sure >what to do? It isn't clear to me what good this is? Making a new folder doesn't >make sense here? > >So I jumped to, 2. Call Menu Edit -> Book -> Import old book and select >"H8.hbk". > >So I do this and for the next half hour I have it supposedly importing H8.hbk >and I checked to make sure that was correct, but when it's finished with it's >importation nothing changes? > >I still have the CD ver. H8 ctg. Book! This is madding as it takes alot of time >to do this so-called conversion and importation! > > >What am I doing wrong, what am I suppose to do? I have H8 ctg. copied to disk in >it's own folder which I created during setup. I do this for all my OB's F7 etc., >and name the My Fritz7, My HIARCS 8, etc. > >Now following the first instruction leads me to open my ctg. well that's >useless, and step to won't transfer my "H8.hbk"? > >This should be soooo easy but I'm missing something? Can anyone here give me >instructions that would enable me to import this book? > >Not my day:( > > >Terry Hi Terry, I had problems at first also. First off, you don't have to make a FOLDER, just a file. So in step 1 when you go Menu>File>New.....Just type in Openings book in the file name window, and click onto save. Now in step 2 you go into edit>opening book>Import Old book and then select the H8.hbk file. I then went to the bottom of the window where it says "files of type. Click onto the arrow (for the drop down menu)and I selected Hiarcs books. I then clicked onto the open button. After 5 minutes or so it was done. Your new book will be named Openings book, you will aslo have your original Hiracs book. You will now have either one to use if you like. When I first tried the install by making a Folder it took almost 20 minutes to go thru it's cycle, only to find that I still only had the original Hiarcs book and nothing had changed. I tried it again the proper way I had mentioned and it went thru but there was ONE PROBLEM, I did not see any percentages in the opening book window when using the program. At that point I uninstalled my Hiarcs book which was from the CD, and also deleted any new H8.hbk files I found in my Book Folder. I then reinstalled my Hiarcs 8 book from the CD. I then installed the H8.hbk from my download back into the Book Folder. Then I went thru the process correctly as mentioned above. Now the percentages show, when using the the New book I made called "Openings book". I will say this however, I don't see any improvement in it's results when running an engine tournament against Fritz 7. It seems to get better results from it's CD Book. I haven't really played enough games to tell though. I hope this helps you in any way. Also, if any one out there thinks I may have done something incorrectly, please, please, let me know. Regards Brian Katz
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