Polyglot books

[Audmeister]

After reading some posts on polyglot books, I used SCID to tweak and adjust weights to my polyglot book. But what I need to learn is to add more moves into certain lines into my polyglot book.

Is there a way to do so?

[Audmeister]

Guess there isn't a way to do this huh?

thats a bummer.

[Edsel Apostol]

There's a pg_add in http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algeb ... ormat.html under Utilitites that could add an entry into a polyglot file, but then it is in the commandline and you have to enter the moves one by one through the FEN string.

I wish Scid will support this. It would be a great utility.

[Michel]

The CVS version of scid supports this.

Are you using Linux? On Linux is easy to compile the CVS version. On windows
it is somewhat trickier.

[Michel]

Here is an old development version

http://alpha.uhasselt.be/Research/Algeb ... exp.tar.gz

which contains window binaries.

The CVS version however contains some additional features.

[Edsel Apostol]

Does this SCID version and the SCID 3.7 beta version have the option to add Polyglot moves already?

Audy I think is using XP 64 bit and I'm using XP 32 bit.

[Michel]

Does this SCID version and the SCID 3.7 beta version have the option to add Polyglot moves already?

Yes it seems 3.7b does support this (I just compiled it). No need to use the old
development version.

[Audmeister]

Hmm interesting! I am using windows btw.

I will look into the beta version of SCID and tinker with it!

Thank you very much!

[Audmeister]

It seems that everytime I try to save the weight adjustments under book tuning, SCID beta seems to freeze up. It takes a while to save the move and adjustments. The old SCID did not do this.

Is anyone getting this same problem?

[Michel]

It seems that everytime I try to save the weight adjustments under book tuning, SCID beta seems to freeze up. It takes a while to save the move and adjustments. The old SCID did not do this.

It is true that saving now takes a bit longer. But on my several years old laptop this is less than half a second. What hardware are you using?

The reason it takes longer is that SCID now saves the whole book instead of just
the adjustments.

If it is really a problem then SCID could try to recognize the situation where you have
only adjusted weights (and not added moves) and revert to the old behaviour in that case.