New Feature Request: own books
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New Feature Request: own books
Given that HCE has great book functions already for its own books, a useful new feature would be to be able to build books for oneself. The UI could then give lots of options like stats / number of positions in book (and number of positions per variation) as well as play % for engine v engine use.
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I support this idea.
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This is planned for the next year.
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Please make it useful for those who use HCEP for playing human - comp. games. This is a missing feature in all the programs I have looked at. While the book used by the engine (Hiarcs) is very good for general play, you sometimes need a book for training before a tournament.
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Re: New Feature Request: own books
Very good idea that should be right at the top of the priority list!
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Exactly. One's own book is extremely usefuloddg wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:15 am Please make it useful for those who use HCEP for playing human - comp. games. This is a missing feature in all the programs I have looked at. While the book used by the engine (Hiarcs) is very good for general play, you sometimes need a book for training before a tournament.
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You can use any CTG book for play, but yes, so far you cannot create a book in HCE.oddg wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:15 am Please make it useful for those who use HCEP for playing human - comp. games. This is a missing feature in all the programs I have looked at. While the book used by the engine (Hiarcs) is very good for general play, you sometimes need a book for training before a tournament.
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What I want is to decide which games go into the book as White and which go into as Black play. I will collect the games from my possible opponents in one White file and one Black file. From this I will create one book that could be used when I play against the engine without need to remember wich book to select. With Chessbase I doesn't have this control. I can do it with a polyglot book, but Hiarcs can't use them.mrudolf wrote: ↑Wed Nov 02, 2022 7:49 amYou can use any CTG book for play, but yes, so far you cannot create a book in HCE.oddg wrote: ↑Sat Oct 29, 2022 10:15 am Please make it useful for those who use HCEP for playing human - comp. games. This is a missing feature in all the programs I have looked at. While the book used by the engine (Hiarcs) is very good for general play, you sometimes need a book for training before a tournament.
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It would be terrific if HCE could read (support) Polyglot books or perhaps be able to convert one into its own format.
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Re: New Feature Request: own books
The easiest way to create CTG books is with the usual ChessBase programs. Steve Lopez posted a video showing how easy it is (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OItKEDdtKak).
CTG being a proprietary ChessBase format, could HIARCS risk copyright violations by its adoption?
CTG being a proprietary ChessBase format, could HIARCS risk copyright violations by its adoption?
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CTG is used by HCE, but we would prefer to use something else for our books, as CTG has some limitations we do not like.EloDeficit wrote: ↑Fri Dec 30, 2022 2:49 pm CTG being a proprietary ChessBase format, could HIARCS risk copyright violations by its adoption?
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Hi, are there any updates on this? I'd really like to be able to create a book from some of the Lichess databases; when analyzing I like to look at both master games and amateur games nearer my level to see what people are actually playing. I've done this with a local database and the tree explorer but even with just a few million games it's much slower than a CTG.
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It is planned for 1.4 and 1.5, but no extra details yet. I will write in this thread once we have more info.jeremyjh wrote: ↑Sat Aug 26, 2023 1:34 pm Hi, are there any updates on this? I'd really like to be able to create a book from some of the Lichess databases; when analyzing I like to look at both master games and amateur games nearer my level to see what people are actually playing. I've done this with a local database and the tree explorer but even with just a few million games it's much slower than a CTG.