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Subject: Re: Loading an opening book - Programmers

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 18:56:43 11/14/02

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On November 14, 2002 at 20:09:24, Arshad F. Syed wrote:

>Given that I have no experience loading an opening book, could someone please
>tell me how this is done programmatically? At least the basic steps.
>
>1.) Download an opening book from where?
>
>2.) Reading it and generating the moves etc.
>
>Preferably, please don't redirect me to a website, unless it is worth it.
>
>Thanks,
>Arshad

I'm going to assume that you are asking how to get an opening book for a chess
program that you wrote.  If that's what you mean, then the answer is that you
have to make your own book.  To use someone else's book is 1) impossible if it's
a binary book, or 2) difficult if it's a text book, since you have to know how
the moves are organized, and you have to write the code to read and order the
moves anyway.

There are many messages in the archives of this forum detailing alternative
methods for creating opening books.  Do a search.

Will



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