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Posted: **28 Sep 2005, 12:23**

HoiChess needs book.dat as an opening book. There is no such file in the HoiChess package, and I did not see in the documentation how to make one.

Olivier

Posted: **28 Sep 2005, 13:05**

Dann made one for it. If you cannot reach the site currently,
just drop me an email

Best,
Guenther

Psss... it is running

Posted: **28 Sep 2005, 18:48**

Hi Olivier,

You can create your own opening book
from a pgn on the command line in Hoichess
as follows >

HoiChess 0.3.4
Copyright (C) 2004, 2005 Holger Ruckdeschel <holger@hoicher.de>
This program is free software and comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.
See the GNU General Public License for more details.

Hash table size: 1048576 entries (24 MiB)
Opening book: book.dat

Type "help" for a list of available commands.

White (1): book help
Usage: book close
book open <bookfile>
book create <bookfile> <pgnfile> <depth>
White (1):

regards,
Jim

Posted: **28 Sep 2005, 19:24**

Hi Jim

Thanks for the hint

Guenther sent me the big book by Dann Corbit, so I'll keep this one since I am lazy

Olivier

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