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Subject: Re: Opening Book Formats and Creation

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 17:15:12 12/30/98

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On December 30, 1998 at 19:54:31, Chris Moreton wrote:

>I have recently added a new opening book and opening book format to Rival.  It
>now makes an opening book from a PGN file and can be requested to create a new
>book from within the GUI.  It stores the positions in a plain text file as FENs
>along with the number of white wins, black wins and draws and can be asked to
>restrict the book based on the percentage of wins for the side who would make
>the move that leads to each position and the number of plys examined in each
>game.  The idea was mainly fueled after reading how Crafty creates its book.bin
>file.  Is this relatively in keeping with how others implement opening books or
>am I, as is often the case, way of the mark?
>
>Chris

Sounds great, Chris.  So you have a book composed of fens, that the program
reads and converts to hash entries, I take it.  Right?

I do it in a way I'm sure no one else does, because it's inefficient and hard to
modify.  I just read pgn games into memory, then sort so as to allow random
choices between variations.

Will



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