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Subject: Re: How to make Hiarcs 7.32 new book HELP PLEASE

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 01:32:27 01/03/00

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On January 01, 2000 at 18:00:54, Chessfun wrote:

>I downloaded and installed the patch h732sp1, then downloaded h732book.
>
>
>Following is the readme file.
>By courtesy of Mark Uniacke and Eric Hallsworth, a clearly improved book has
>been made available to Hiarcs732 users. There is no need to do the conversion if
>the files on your CD are dated July 1999 or later.
>
>To create the new Hiarcs book, please do the following:
>
>0. Download the Hiarcs732 Service Pack and install it.
>
>DONE
>
>1. Copy the file h732book.hbk into your root directory C:\\ It will work nowhere
>else! You can delete it afterwards.
>
>DONE
>
>2. Start Hiarcs732 and create an empty book (Book - New Tree). Call it, say
>H732.ctg
>
>DONE
>
>3. Press Alt-Shift-G to start th9e conversion. You will get some "Internal
>messages", ignore them, they are harmless.
>
>GOT NONE


Here the hiarcs.hbk or however it is called (have no access at the moment) gets
converted to a .ctg tree!
I am not sure but it may be that you should take the SP2!


>4. Create a tree of strong modern grandmaster games. Taking the General.ctg book
>of Fritz5.32 is a good choice.
>
>IS IT NOW CORRECT TO SIMPLY IMPORT THE GENERAL.CTG TREE TO THIS NEW H732.CTG.


Not now.


>IF YES, WHY COULDN'T I HAVE JUST COPIED GENERAL.CTG TO H732.CTG.
>
>OR IS IT NOW CORRECT TO MAKE ANOTHER NEW TREE SAY GENERAL1.CTG SINCE IF I MODIFY
>GENERAL.CTG THAT IS FRITZ'S BOOK.
>OR DO I COPY GENERAL.CTG TO GENERAL1.CTG


You can choose what you want. *I* took the general.ctg, you may take some other
book. It is recommended to take a large and wide book.


>5. Right-click in the book window of the grandmaster tree and call "Weed Tree"
>with the default parameters.
>
>NOW I ASSUME I WEED GENERAL1.CTG CREATED ABOVE


Correct.


>6. Call "Import Tree" to import H732.ctg (created under 2 and 3) into
>General.ctg.
>
>THIS WILL IMPORT NOTHING SINCE NOTHING HAS BEEN PUT IN H732.CTG


The h732.ctg is not empty, it is just a bit small, so that you expand it with
the general.ctg, that is all you/we should do.
And AFAIR it should be done vice versa, open the h732.ctg and import the
general.ctg. So you keep the move preferences, you will find exponential values
of 2 in the converted hiarcs book (1024, 4096 and so)


>7. General.ctg is now your new Hiarcs732 book.
>
>THE FILE PUT ONTO C:\ H732BOOK.HBK WHAT IS THIS THERE FOR SINCE IT HAS NOT BEEN
>USED.
>
>
>Any help would be appreciated: preferably detailed:-)
>Thanks.


The file h732book.hbk is only needed for 1st step. After it was converted to
h732book.ctg the .hbk has no sense any longer.




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