Author: margolies,marc
Date: 23:20:51 11/24/03
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the three program you mentioned in your question ca all operate in the fritz gui. Within this gui, opening books are formed as ctg files. the gui loads ctg files for the engine. any engine can use any ctg file. if you also own cb8, you can build your own ctg files with that-- they are called 'tree databases' in chessbase lingo ( although they contain much less data than the real tree databases you find in chessassistant and bookup). Junior comes with it's own excellent opening book. In the fritz gui, shredder and fritz come with the same book. Another book for shredder comes with the shredderCD. But this excellentshredder opening book operates not in the fritz gui-- in another uci gui called 'shredder classic,' which has excellent features of its own which were later to some degree adopted by the Fritz designers. Classic gui uses an older style of opening book from fritz called .fbk If you own a old version of chessbase you can build these files almost the same way that you build ctg files. Classic gui also has a native opening book system. One way to improve your book, should you feel the need to change your book is to add important new games from strong players into the book with their weighted assessments. I personally feel my books play strong enough so I will not tamper with them although I will write new books which are opening specific for analytical purposes--also for training--and novelty databases constructed from correspondence play such as a giant book i once built from tim harding's mega-cor-3 have great entertainment value when I play chess engines. Of course buying new engines with unique books eliminates the boredom of always losing to the same line of some variation until I feel disgust with some engine or myself too. On November 24, 2003 at 18:43:17, Thanasis wrote: >It is true that all those progs (shredder, fritz, junior, etc.) does not use the >compatible openings books that are offered with the original cds than anyone of >as can buy. >If not for as to create shuch books , at least how can we improve our books? >(except from methods like improving inluence value and learning strength)
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