Author: Mihaly Szalai
Date: 10:17:08 10/08/04
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On October 08, 2004 at 13:04:53, David Dahlem wrote: >On October 08, 2004 at 10:29:00, Mihaly Szalai wrote: > >>On October 08, 2004 at 02:46:11, Mike Byrne wrote: >> >>>On October 07, 2004 at 23:44:38, David Dahlem wrote: >>> >>>>On October 07, 2004 at 22:58:30, Mike Byrne wrote: >>>> >>>>>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 >>>> >>>>"Search-and-replace is a capability that allows a computer user to find a given >>>>sequence of characters in one or more text files and, if desired, replace the >>>>sequence with another sequence of characters. A global search-and-replace means >>>>that the replace is to take effect in all files within the context of the >>>>search." >>>> >>>>It's possible to flag black or white moves with a text editor that supports >>>>search and replace. It's easy once you get the hang of it, but it is harder to >>>>explain how to do it than it is to do it. Basically i start by replacing all >>>>spaces with a unique character or string, the asterisk symbol, for example. Then >>>>just replace certain strings with flags, spaces, etc. >>>> >>>>Regards >>>>Dave >>> >>>I understand - but in a pgn file... >>> >>>Leko vs Kramnik Game 8 >>> >>>1.e4 e5 2.Nf3 Nc6 3.Bb5 a6 4.Ba4 Nf6 5.O-O Be7 6.Re1 b5 7.Bb3 O-O 8.c3 >>>d5 9.exd5 Nxd5 10.Nxe5 Nxe5 11.Rxe5 c6 12.d4 Bd6 13.Re1 Qh4 14.g3 Qh3 >>>15.Re4 g5 16.Qf1 Qh5 17.Nd2 Bf5 18.f3 Nf6 19.Re1 Rae8 20.Rxe8 Rxe8 21.a4 >>>Qg6 22.axb5 Bd3 23.Qf2 Re2 24.Qxe2 Bxe2 25.bxa6 Qd3 26.Kf2 Bxf3 27.Nxf3 >>>Ne4+ 28.Ke1 Nxc3 29.bxc3 Qxc3+ 30.Kf2 Qxa1 31.a7 h6 32.h4 g4 Resigns >>> >>>what find/replace scheme would you use to add a mark to all of white's moves or >>>all black moves? You said you did that in 30 minutes - how many games were in >>>the file? >> >>Hi Mike, >> >>please, change the code in Crafty and we will flag the PGN files for you. >>My english is too poor to explain it but it takes about 20 minutes and >>independent from the number of the games in the file. >> >>Best >>Mihaly > >Hi Mihaly > >I've been experimenting with creating repertoire books for the Crafty SE >grandmaster personalities. I think including only "won" games is best. With >non-active grandmasters, collecting complete game collections is not a problem, >since the number of games is a fixed number. But with still active grandmasters, >acquiring a complete up-to-date collection is more difficult. How, or where, do >you find an up-to-date collection for these grandmasters? I think only Kasparov, >Polgar, and possibly Spassky are still active? > >Regards >Dave Hi Dave, I regularly download the TWIC files where I can find the most recent games every week. Judit Polgar isn't active because she is expecting a baby :)) I include the won and drawn games because of wider variety of play. Best Mihaly
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