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Subject: Re: EPD book question + one

Author: JW de Kort

Date: 04:29:37 09/27/05

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On September 27, 2005 at 00:18:15, David Mitchell wrote:

>On September 26, 2005 at 19:10:39, Andres Valverde wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am building a book file for my little engine. It consist in a text files with
>>lines like this :
>>
>>rr4k1/3nppbp/5np1/q1pPN3/8/2N3PP/PP3PK1/R1BQR3 b - - c0:d7e5 ce:50
>>rr4k1/3nppbp/3p1np1/q1pPP3/8/2N2NPP/PP3PK1/R1BQR3 b - - c0:d6e5 ce:50
>>rr4k1/3nppbp/3p1np1/q1pP4/4P3/2N2NPP/PP3PK1/R1BQR3 w - - c0:e4e5 ce:50
>>rr4k1/2qnbppp/p2pb3/1p2p1Pn/4P2P/1NN1BP2/PPP2Q2/1K1R1B1R w - - c0:f3f4 ce:50
>>rqb2rk1/pp2bppp/2nppn2/1N6/4PP2/2N1B3/PPP1B1PP/R2Q1RK1 w - - c0:a2a4 ce:50
>>rqb1kbnr/pp1ppppp/2n5/1N6/4P3/8/PPP2PPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq - c0:f1d3 ce:50
>>rqb1kbnr/pp1ppppp/2n5/1N6/4P3/8/PPP2PPP/RNBQKB1R w KQkq - c0:c2c4 ce:33
>>.....
>>
>>The EPD lines are extracted from PGN files and the "ce:x" code is the % scored
>>by side to play. The question is: what is the best opcode for the move? "bm:"?
>>"cO" as a comment. I would like to make books that other people could read/write
>>with any EPD tool.
>>
>>Thanks in advance.
>
>Unfortunately, I'm thick as a brick on book files, but I gather from the above
>that Andres will have a different EPD line for EVERY SINGLE POSITION in his
>opening book?? "Holy Crap!" I infer the advantage is it detects all transposed
>positions, and the disadvantage is it makes for a HUGE file.
>
>Andres, are you breaking this up into multiple files?
>
>Dann (and y'all), would you comment a bit on this scheme? I'm guessing that the
>text lists of the moves is the most common layout for a book file? Is this also
>a popular layout for an opening book, or is it only suitable for small books,
>etc.?
>
>Thanks,
>Dave

Maybe it is not the best solution or the most clever one but it is workable. My
own engine uses the book from Beowulf that also uses a format like the above.
With a normal harddisk like mine this is fast enough to make it acceptable, at
least for me.

regards
Jan Willem








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