Opening book question

[ChessAddict]

What is the prefered method, I have listed below, in making a book? You can give me suggestion too. Thanks.

1. Import games into book

2. Learn from database

3. Add priority analysis

[Graham Banks]

There are some articles on bookmaking on Norm Pruitt's new site:
http://www.enginechess.com/

Regards, Graham.

[gerold]

There are some articles on bookmaking on Norm Pruitt's new site:
http://www.enginechess.com/

Regards, Graham.

Thanks Graham for this link. Hoping it will help me build a
good book.

Very best to you,

Gerold.

[ChessAddict]

I beat you to it already but thanks for suggesting the website. I just want some other peoples opinion on making a strong book. Thanks.

[PAKman]

Hi Everyone,

Roger Z. , Awesome on playchess.com is working on a book making report for http://enginechess.com , he is one of the higher rated players on the site.
His report should be a great resource for the opening book maker.

There are some great articles from noted opening book makers on the site already.

Thank
Norm

[Mike S.]

There are some great articles from noted opening book makers on the site already.

Among the recommendations there, I notice some which don't seem to make sense, like

"Use only mated games!" Why?! Most decided games end with resignation, only few are played until mate.

"Search against every white opening only one black answer (...) because big books make your hardware slower" This seems clearly wrong... Or does that mean books which can have sizes up to Gigabytes?! Anyway, only ONE black answer each, does not make sense to me, of course except there is only one which is really playable.

The concepts of these book makers seem VERY different (and also different to my own, but I didn't create a 'performance' book for competition, yet.)

But Nelson Hernandez' tips are great!

[PAKman]

Hi Mike,

Thanks for the response.

The opening book making briefs are the opinions of the authors and are of course varied. You bring up an excellent point. I will attempt to find and furnish the email address of each author so questions can be made direct.

Thanks for visiting the site
Norm / PAKman