Author: Mike Byrne
Date: 14:36:09 08/27/05
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On August 27, 2005 at 16:46:56, Telmo C. Escobar wrote:
>On August 27, 2005 at 16:23:35, Telmo C. Escobar wrote:
>
>>
>> Crafty Classic 2004 has many "personalities", some of them GM ones {Fischer,
>>Botvinnik, etc}, some of them club players {1800 etc}, and some of them novices
>>{Wendy etc}. Nice, fun, and very useful for chessplayers of any strength.
>>
>> I am puzzled about the text file explaining how to use the opening books for
>>the personalities, as I don't have these books. Do somebody have them, or know
>>how to get them?
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Telmo
>
> From the readme file included in the superb release prepared by Mike Byrne:
>
>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>If just need to create a book for one personality, start crafty in the console
>window, change to the personality that you want to create the book for - say
>"krafty euwe" -- then use the same book creation command as regular crafty
>"book create euwe.pgn 40 1 0" (if these options are your preference I like
>making books where all it will the possibility to play every move that GM ever
>played in a given position see Crafty readme for more details about book
>creation).
>
>One last thing, you have to mark every move played by the GM in the pgn file
>with an "!" (exclamation point) for that move to marked as playable in the [gm
>book].bin file.
>-----------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> So I apparently can create my own opening book for the personality "Euwe"
>(say). The only problem is that adding exclamation points, by hand, to any move
>made by Euwe in about one thousand games, is not my idea of an agreeable
>weekend. Do somebody know if there is a PGN tool to do that automatically?
>
> Telmo
FYI
I made books for ALL the personalities -- if they played a move , it's in the
book and the book is only moves played by them.
All done by hand, each book was a weekend.
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