Help creating Romichess Opening book

[Tony Thomas]

I have a pgn comprised of high quality human games (2700+) from Wael, I would like to make a book for Romichess but I do not know how.. I have send the pgn to Mike, but I do not know when he is going to respond. So if anyone knows how to make a book please post the instructions. I believe that the instructions were posted in Leo's Engine Details..

Thanks in advance
Tony

[Jim Ablett]

I have a pgn comprised of high quality human games (2700+) from Wael, I would like to make a book for Romichess but I do not know how.. I have send the pgn to Mike, but I do not know when he is going to respond. So if anyone knows how to make a book please post the instructions. I believe that the instructions were posted in Leo's Engine Details..

Thanks in advance
Tony

Hi Tony,

I think you are referring to the 'merge' command which will merge a pgn into the learn file.

Example (type in command from console): merge compGM.pgn

I think there may be a limit on the size of the pgn that it can accept, so
if it's a particularly massive pgn file you may have to split it into smaller parts before it is accepted.

Jim.

[Tony Thomas]

I have a pgn comprised of high quality human games (2700+) from Wael, I would like to make a book for Romichess but I do not know how.. I have send the pgn to Mike, but I do not know when he is going to respond. So if anyone knows how to make a book please post the instructions. I believe that the instructions were posted in Leo's Engine Details..

Thanks in advance
Tony

Hi Tony,

I think you are referring to the 'merge' command which will merge a pgn into the learn file.

Example (type in command from console): merge compGM.pgn

I think there may be a limit on the size of the pgn that it can accept, so
if it's a particularly massive pgn file you may have to split it into smaller parts before it is accepted.

Jim.

Yes, I was talking about the merge command..thanks for the info.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

I have a pgn comprised of high quality human games (2700+) from Wael, I would like to make a book for Romichess but I do not know how.. I have send the pgn to Mike, but I do not know when he is going to respond. So if anyone knows how to make a book please post the instructions. I believe that the instructions were posted in Leo's Engine Details..

Thanks in advance
Tony

Hi Tony,

I think you are referring to the 'merge' command which will merge a pgn into the learn file.

Example (type in command from console): merge compGM.pgn

I think there may be a limit on the size of the pgn that it can accept, so
if it's a particularly massive pgn file you may have to split it into smaller parts before it is accepted.

Jim.

Thanks master Jim for helping,the file is about 6 Mb is size so Tony won't have a problem composing the opening book....
I expect a lot from this new opening book,over the last two weeks I spent many and I mean many hours to collect,clean and optimize this pgn file....
Waiting eagerly for the test results from tony over the ICC server

[Tony Thomas]

I have a pgn comprised of high quality human games (2700+) from Wael, I would like to make a book for Romichess but I do not know how.. I have send the pgn to Mike, but I do not know when he is going to respond. So if anyone knows how to make a book please post the instructions. I believe that the instructions were posted in Leo's Engine Details..

Thanks in advance
Tony

Hi Tony,

I think you are referring to the 'merge' command which will merge a pgn into the learn file.

Example (type in command from console): merge compGM.pgn

I think there may be a limit on the size of the pgn that it can accept, so
if it's a particularly massive pgn file you may have to split it into smaller parts before it is accepted.

Jim.

Thanks master Jim for helping,the file is about 6 Mb is size so Tony won't have a problem composing the opening book....
I expect a lot from this new opening book,over the last two weeks I spent many and I mean many hours to collect,clean and optimize this pgn file....
Waiting eagerly for the test results from tony over the ICC server

Wael, I think that Romi's book making tool is less than perfect..I am not using it on ICC yet, I am just running few trial matches at home and so far the results arent that great against the Oxygen book (polyglot format)..

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

I have a pgn comprised of high quality human games (2700+) from Wael, I would like to make a book for Romichess but I do not know how.. I have send the pgn to Mike, but I do not know when he is going to respond. So if anyone knows how to make a book please post the instructions. I believe that the instructions were posted in Leo's Engine Details..

Thanks in advance
Tony

Hi Tony,

I think you are referring to the 'merge' command which will merge a pgn into the learn file.

Example (type in command from console): merge compGM.pgn

I think there may be a limit on the size of the pgn that it can accept, so
if it's a particularly massive pgn file you may have to split it into smaller parts before it is accepted.

Jim.

Thanks master Jim for helping,the file is about 6 Mb is size so Tony won't have a problem composing the opening book....
I expect a lot from this new opening book,over the last two weeks I spent many and I mean many hours to collect,clean and optimize this pgn file....
Waiting eagerly for the test results from tony over the ICC server

Wael, I think that Romi's book making tool is less than perfect..I am not using it on ICC yet, I am just running few trial matches at home and so far the results arent that great against the Oxygen book (polyglot format)..

Can you post some games Tony to see how my new opening book cope with Oxygen's one

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

BTW,it's not a big deal to filter out the Mega Database 2007,which I have,and send you a pgn which will in the worst case cope with Oxygen's opening book if not killing it....I can do it in less than one hour

It's just that I am begining to think that Oxygen as a chess engine is definitely stronger than Romichess....

[Michael Sherwin]

I have a pgn comprised of high quality human games (2700+) from Wael, I would like to make a book for Romichess but I do not know how.. I have send the pgn to Mike, but I do not know when he is going to respond. So if anyone knows how to make a book please post the instructions. I believe that the instructions were posted in Leo's Engine Details..

Thanks in advance
Tony

Start with a fresh learn file

Enter 'book 2'

Enter 'merge book.pgn'

That will give Romi a 'hard wired' book

To extend the 'hard wired' book with a 'soft wired' book

Enter 'book 1'

Enter 'merge extended.pgn'

I have merged enormous.pgn from Robert Hyatt as a type 1 soft book with no problems, ~1.5 million games.

Romi will use the HARD book blindly with out thinking, so be careful. When out of the HARD book Romi will use the SOFT book.

[Tony Thomas]

I have a pgn comprised of high quality human games (2700+) from Wael, I would like to make a book for Romichess but I do not know how.. I have send the pgn to Mike, but I do not know when he is going to respond. So if anyone knows how to make a book please post the instructions. I believe that the instructions were posted in Leo's Engine Details..

Thanks in advance
Tony

Hi Tony,

I think you are referring to the 'merge' command which will merge a pgn into the learn file.

Example (type in command from console): merge compGM.pgn

I think there may be a limit on the size of the pgn that it can accept, so
if it's a particularly massive pgn file you may have to split it into smaller parts before it is accepted.

Jim.

Thanks master Jim for helping,the file is about 6 Mb is size so Tony won't have a problem composing the opening book....
I expect a lot from this new opening book,over the last two weeks I spent many and I mean many hours to collect,clean and optimize this pgn file....
Waiting eagerly for the test results from tony over the ICC server

Wael, I think that Romi's book making tool is less than perfect..I am not using it on ICC yet, I am just running few trial matches at home and so far the results arent that great against the Oxygen book (polyglot format)..

Can you post some games Tony to see how my new opening book cope with Oxygen's one

Wael, from reading Mike's post, I didnt make the book properly. I just renamed your pgn to A.pgn and typed the command "merge a.pgn" and it made a small book..Here are the results..

Book Match

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Rank Engine Score Ro Ro S-B 
1 RomiChessP3k RG 18.5/30 · ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· 1=01=011==1011=0011010111=1=10  212.75  
2 RomiChessP3k WB 11.5/30 0=10=100==0100=1100101000=0=01 · ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ··  212.75  

30 games played / Tournament finished
Tournament start: 2008.06.17, 05:32:03
Latest update: 2008.06.17, 09:45:15
Site/ Country: Atlanta, Ga, United States
Level: Blitz 1/1
Hardware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz with 239 MB Memory
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
PGN-File: Book Match.pgn
Table created with: Arena 1.1

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

I have a pgn comprised of high quality human games (2700+) from Wael, I would like to make a book for Romichess but I do not know how.. I have send the pgn to Mike, but I do not know when he is going to respond. So if anyone knows how to make a book please post the instructions. I believe that the instructions were posted in Leo's Engine Details..

Thanks in advance
Tony

Hi Tony,

I think you are referring to the 'merge' command which will merge a pgn into the learn file.

Example (type in command from console): merge compGM.pgn

I think there may be a limit on the size of the pgn that it can accept, so
if it's a particularly massive pgn file you may have to split it into smaller parts before it is accepted.

Jim.

Thanks master Jim for helping,the file is about 6 Mb is size so Tony won't have a problem composing the opening book....
I expect a lot from this new opening book,over the last two weeks I spent many and I mean many hours to collect,clean and optimize this pgn file....
Waiting eagerly for the test results from tony over the ICC server

Wael, I think that Romi's book making tool is less than perfect..I am not using it on ICC yet, I am just running few trial matches at home and so far the results arent that great against the Oxygen book (polyglot format)..

Can you post some games Tony to see how my new opening book cope with Oxygen's one

Wael, from reading Mike's post, I didnt make the book properly. I just renamed your pgn to A.pgn and typed the command "merge a.pgn" and it made a small book..Here are the results..

Book Match

Code: Select all

Rank Engine Score Ro Ro S-B 
1 RomiChessP3k RG 18.5/30 · ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· 1=01=011==1011=0011010111=1=10  212.75  
2 RomiChessP3k WB 11.5/30 0=10=100==0100=1100101000=0=01 · ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ·· ··  212.75  

30 games played / Tournament finished
Tournament start: 2008.06.17, 05:32:03
Latest update: 2008.06.17, 09:45:15
Site/ Country: Atlanta, Ga, United States
Level: Blitz 1/1
Hardware: Intel(R) Celeron(R) CPU 2.80GHz with 239 MB Memory
Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Home Edition Service Pack 2 (Build 2600)
PGN-File: Book Match.pgn
Table created with: Arena 1.1

I see Tony,the best approach would be to deliver the new pgn to Michael as soon as possible,so you can run some test matchs before the world rapid championship....
I am on a standby mode for any material needed for creating the new book....