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Subject: Re: How to make Hiarcs 7.32 new book (Harold Faber) HELP PLEASE

Author: Chessfun

Date: 22:59:12 01/03/00

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On January 04, 2000 at 00:36:30, Harald Faber wrote:

>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?


I have patch called h732sp1.zip uncompressed = 1,605,040 bytes dated 6th Oct
1999. I just checked patch currently at chessbase is called h732sp.zip I am
downloading that now. I will report on it tomorrow.
Thanks.




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