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Subject: Re: My $.02 on books

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 19:58:30 10/07/04

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On October 06, 2004 at 23:52:19, David Dahlem wrote:

>On October 06, 2004 at 22:16:04, Mike Byrne wrote:
>
>>You had a nice thread going on personality books.
>>
>>Let me describe my process - I create a pgn file for Fischer with White -- I run
>>that through bookup - flag the most common moves for white going somewhere
>>between 20 to 50ply (10 - 25 moves deep).   I flag only the white moves.  I then
>>the same with Fischer as black pgn., flagging only the most common black moves.
>>I export the bookup file as multiple pgn's and the combine both test files to
>>create one fischer.bin (later I will modify Crafty to look for fischer.bin when
>>playing as with fischer personality), import the moves in Crafty.  Crafty will
>>then play just like Fischer wther white or black.  With Bookup, I should be able
>>to make one personality book in about 4 hours.  It is really cool and it works.
>>
>>
>>The fischer.bin only has about 30,000+ positions, so it is not a very big book.
>>maybe 1 MB.
>
>Hi Mike
>
>I don't have Bookup, but i think i can mark the moves using the search and
>replace feature of my text editor. This will also require splitting into
>white.pgn and black.pgn. All of the moves for the selected grandmaster will get
>marked. It shouldn't take over 30 minutes to create a book using this method.
>I'm not sure what you mean by most common moves. Bookup must have a feature that
>identifies the most common moves?

it does --- it has counter --I'm not exactly sure what it counts - perhaps leaf
nodes?   what exactly are using search and replace to mark all the moves in 30
minutes?

>
>Regards
>Dave



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