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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