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Subject: Re: EPD book question + one

Author: Odd Gunnar Malin

Date: 23:07:08 09/27/05

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On September 27, 2005 at 17:45:03, Andres Valverde wrote:

>On September 27, 2005 at 00:18:15, David Mitchell wrote:
>
>>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?
>
>Well I try to explain my idea :
>
>1) Read PGN collections till ply "x" (e.g: 30)
>2) After every move write a text file with the position EPD string and the
>following move, also the result of the game is stored:
>
>rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq -;d2d4;w;
>
>3) The file created has lot of repeated lines, so I sort it and creates a new
>file, saving the lines repeated "y" times (the greater "y" is the shorter the
>file). This new file is the book itself composed by the lines I posted.
>
>rnbqkbnr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RNBQKBNR w KQkq - pm d2d4 ce 56
>
>(note the changes propposed by Dann. 56 is the score (in %) of the side to play)
>
>4) The engine creates the EPD string for the current position and search the
>text file. It can find several lines, gather the scores, and select one of the
>predicted moves (randomly, the best score etc.)
>

Predicted move (pm) can only be one move, not a list of moves. To make a list
you have to go back to bm (and am if you like).

ce stand for centipawn valuation.

Odd Gunnar



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