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Subject: Re: How to make Hiarcs 7.32 new book (Steve Lopez) HELP PLEASE

Author: Chessfun

Date: 14:34:14 01/03/00

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On January 03, 2000 at 04:32:27, Harald Faber wrote:

>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!
>
There is no sp2 only sp at chessbase. Also i get no message just a letter g on
the screen. How can it access hiarcs.hbk, this is on c:\ per 1.
>
>>4. Create a tree of strong modern grandmaster games. Taking the General.ctg book
>>of Fritz5.32 is a good choice.
>>
99>>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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