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Subject: Re: Any Windows programs have auto-add-to-opening-book feature like MChess?

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 11:25:18 05/27/04

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On May 27, 2004 at 14:18:41, John Rissler wrote:

>
>	I have MChess Pro 6, and have always found its feature of automatically adding
>moves to its opening book, based on its experience playing an opponent,
>intriguing and amusing.
>
>	Eventually, if played repeatedly against one of my tabletop chess computers, it
>would build a "killer" opening book.  Sometimes MCP6 would be out of book only a
>few moves before announcing mate.
>
>	However, MChess Pro 6 is an "ugly" DOS program, and is a pain to run on the
>later versions of Windows.
>
>	Do any Windows chess programs have the ability to automatically build to their
>opening library, based on the outcome of their games, like Marty Hirsch's
>program?
>
>	Thanks to anyone for help.
>
>
>
>P.S.  I assume the top chess programmers -- such as Stefan Meyer-Kahlen -- do
>not view Marty Hirsch's opening book learning method to be the most effective
>way to improve opening play -- since none of them utilize it.

I think there is a winboard engine called BigBook that does something similar to
this, but i'm not sure how effective it is. :-)

Regards
Dave



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