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Subject: Re: CM9000 book building question-John Merlino

Author: Paul Doire

Date: 20:35:26 10/10/02

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On October 10, 2002 at 12:01:57, John Merlino wrote:

>On October 10, 2002 at 11:24:22, Paul Doire wrote:
>
>>I have recently installed CM9000 and am having difficulty in the "Library"
>>when I try to import PGN for a new book.
>>
>>The dialogue box comes up and ask what weighting...I use default(frequency)
>>and for depth of plies ...I set it for 40 and enter.
>>
>>I cannot get a book to go deeper than 8 moves regardless of the fact that I
>>asked for 40 plies. This operation works fine in CM8000 and I get a full
>>20 moves in my created books.
>>
>>Can someone help me?
>>
>>Thanks in advance
>>Paul
>
>I would guess that two other options are what are causing this behavior.
>
>The first option is called "Minimum Moves", and it defaults to 2. This means
>that a move must occur a minimum of two times in the PGN file for it to have a
>non-zero weight.
>
>The second option is called "Delete Zero-Weight Branches", and this option is on
>by default. This option basically removes all branches of the book that  contain
>only moves with zero weights (meaning they will never be played). This option is
>useful for making a book take up less space (and therefore less memory).
>
>If you set "Minimum Moves" to 1 and deselect "Delete Zero-Weight Branches", then
>you should get the same behavior that you had in CM8000.
>
>jm

That worked like a charm, Thanks John



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