Author: Harald Faber
Date: 21:36:30 01/03/00
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On January 03, 2000 at 23:22:46, Chessfun wrote: >On January 03, 2000 at 17:34:14, Chessfun wrote: > >>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. >>> >>>>. 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. >>33> >>> >>>>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. >>> >>>99 >>>>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. > > >Harold, > Please excuse my ignorance but I am unclear on a few points. > >3. After creating this tree, and pressing alt-shift-g I get nothing other than a >letter G below the gameboard and nothing else happens. How can it access >hiarcs.hbk, this is on c:\ per 1. > >I am sure the rest will work fine once the above works correct. > >The only patch available at chessbase is the one I used. >Thanks. Hmm. I know there were/are 2. With the 1st it does not work, that is why shortly after that there came out a 2nd. I have looked it up, the setup.exe is dated 7th October 1999 22:04, size is 1.607.336 bytes. Is this the one you have?
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