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

Author: Chessfun

Date: 14:23:50 01/04/00

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On January 04, 2000 at 01:59:12, Chessfun wrote:

>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.

This patch h732sp.zip worked though one thing I noticed was when I set it up
after unzipping it, at some point it refered to Junior?.

Why they never called it h732sp2 is beyond me, if you wondered how I had this
wrong patch, I think I downloaded it when it came out and never tried to install
till a couple of days ago.

Anyway I am happy to report that this patch allowed 3) to work correctly.

I assume the rest will also go fine right now it is translating :-)

Thanks.





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