Author: Terry McCracken
Date: 11:17:39 05/17/02
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On May 17, 2002 at 11:53:45, Brian Katz wrote: >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 Thanks Brian, Kurt and Peter clued me in on what to do at step one yesterday:) I really hate how ChessBase explains things sometimes! Look at Sarah's post on how ChessBase explains how to install the H7.32 OB! http://www.talkchess.com/forums/1/message.html?230021 Terry
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