Author: Thanasis
Date: 04:30:02 11/25/03
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On November 25, 2003 at 02:20:51, margolies,marc wrote: >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) thanks a lot!!
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