Hi all,
My engine Plisk has the capability to create its own opening books based on pgn files and it knows about move weights, winning chance, minimum played, etc.
However I would like to be able to manually tune those opening books via some UI: Arena, Aquarium, Chessbase, etc. So (one of) the solution(s) would be to make Plisk read some the more known book formats.
So the question is what are my options?
a) Polyglot books are good but I think there is no UI that can tweak them. Am I wrong? Is there a tool that can convert other book formats to Polyglot?
b) Arena books (abk). Is the format specification open? And if so, where can I find it? I would really prefer this option since Arena is free and has some nice book editing features.
c) Chessbase (ctg) - the format is closed unfortunatelly (yes, I know somebody reversed engineered it, but I'd rather not do something illegal)
d) Aquarium? Scid? Others?
Any suggestion?
Regards,
Vlad.
Opening book formats and UIs
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Re: Opening book formats and UIs
Hej Vladvladstamate wrote:Polyglot books are good but I think there is no UI that can tweak them. Am I wrong?
It is possible to edit PolyGlot books with Scid by selecting "Book tuning" from the "Tools" menu.
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Re: Opening book formats and UIs
Hi Jaap,
You are right! I did not know that.
I am now changing Plisk to be able to read Polyglot book (rather than own internal format).
Excellent and thanks,
Vlad.
You are right! I did not know that.
I am now changing Plisk to be able to read Polyglot book (rather than own internal format).
Excellent and thanks,
Vlad.
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Re: Opening book formats and UIs
It's not illegal to use the ChessBase book format.vladstamate wrote:Hi all,
My engine Plisk has the capability to create its own opening books based on pgn files and it knows about move weights, winning chance, minimum played, etc.
However I would like to be able to manually tune those opening books via some UI: Arena, Aquarium, Chessbase, etc. So (one of) the solution(s) would be to make Plisk read some the more known book formats.
So the question is what are my options?
a) Polyglot books are good but I think there is no UI that can tweak them. Am I wrong? Is there a tool that can convert other book formats to Polyglot?
b) Arena books (abk). Is the format specification open? And if so, where can I find it? I would really prefer this option since Arena is free and has some nice book editing features.
c) Chessbase (ctg) - the format is closed unfortunatelly (yes, I know somebody reversed engineered it, but I'd rather not do something illegal)
d) Aquarium? Scid? Others?
Any suggestion?
Regards,
Vlad.
For example Daydreamer reads it, Brutus also.
Peter