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Hello,
I'm looking for opening book in text format used by TSCP engine. It contains one variation per line. Every one written as sequence of moves separated with spaces. I use TSCP book along with my engine but this book is too small. Maybe I can somehow convert another book to this format if there are no books in simple text format available?

BitSet wrote:Hello,
I'm looking for opening book in text format used by TSCP engine. It contains one variation per line. Every one written as sequence of moves separated with spaces. I use TSCP book along with my engine but this book is too small. Maybe I can somehow convert another book to this format if there are no books in simple text format available?

Take a look a 'pgnread' tool by Lime engine author, Richard Allbert.

http://www.geocities.com/taciturn_lemon/

Jim.

I've checked this tool but unfortunately it doesn't do what I expect. It only extracts moves in algebraic notation so I have moves like Nxf6. What I need are coordinates of from and to squares

BitSet wrote:I've checked this tool but unfortunately it doesn't do what I expect. It only extracts moves in algebraic notation so I have moves like Nxf6. What I need are coordinates of from and to squares

Here are some books I created for my enhanced Mscp program - Mscp 1.6g.
These are the format you require I think.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/5047625/mscp16g-books.zip

The books were created using the BookBuilder program (older free version 3).
You may still be able to find this somewhere on the web. With this program you
can input a suitable pgn file and output in what BookBuilder calls 'Crafty format'
which is a coordinate notation text file.

Jim.

This is where to get the Bookbuilder program. http://superchess.com/
Here is the direct link to the program > http://home.kpn.nl/jefkaan/DreamHC/bb36.zip

The crafty-format coordinate notation files that BookBuilder outputs contain lots of
superfluous exclamation > '!' < symbols but these are easily removed using the
'search & replace' function of any text editor.

Jim.

BitSet wrote:I've checked this tool but unfortunately it doesn't do what I expect. It only extracts moves in algebraic notation so I have moves like Nxf6. What I need are coordinates of from and to squares

BitSet, you might want to try the ChessGUI by Matthias Gemuh its opening book format is the way you describe and it comes with a) an opening book builder and b) a couple of large pregenerated books by Harry Schnapp.

regards,
Edmund

ChessGUI uses different format but BookBuilder is what I was looking for. Thank You. You are awesome!