Author: Gerd Isenberg
Date: 00:20:03 07/16/02
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On July 16, 2002 at 00:56:52, Dann Corbit wrote: >On July 16, 2002 at 00:38:54, K. Burcham wrote: >>Dan would you please define in detail, "wrote his own book". > >Vincent has hand-written his own chess opening book for his program. > >Nobody else has done this (as far as I know). > >They generally get a book from a professional book builder (Noomen/Kure/etc) if >they are professional programs or perhaps one from Carlos Pesce or someone like >that if they are amateur programmers. > >In any case, book creation by the original author is practically unknown. I build my own manually since 94 (about 150,000 lines until now). I used chess books (BCO, opening monographies like "winning with ...", Informator) and chess newspapers. After a framework of most mainlines was finished by this way (in about two years), i also used pgn-databases by the following way: Loading a game, going to the novelty from programs point of view so far, diciding whether i put a few new moves into the book, maybe declaring some moves as passive (=) or blunders(?). Also engine analysis was involved, specially if the line was active played by IsiChess. There were also some "secret" lines from local chess players, and of course feedback from (lost) games. This also implies that good moves played by other programs became active part of the IsiChess book. The book editor of my former Dos IsiChess is quite sophisticated, able to interactive traverse lines back and forth, using a tree view from the current position and a list view with lines lead to the current position. Even after rewriting my program in 2000, most of the book lines seem to fit IsiChess playing style quite good. Gerd
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