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In article <1vph2rINNg4b@gap.caltech.edu> jonah@cco.caltech.edu (Jonah Michaud) writes:
>I would like to make a gnuchess.book using the main lines in MCO13.  However, I
>dont know which lines to include, ie some are much better for a certain side.
>
>1) How does gnuchess keep track of which lines are good or bad?  That is the
>whole point of having the book be a hashtable, right?  So that it can learn 
>from its opening mistakes or those of its opponents?  It must have some way of
>associating with a critical position a MOVE NOT TO MAKE or a MOVE TO MAKE,
>depending on its color?!!

Last I looked, you should put a ? after a MOVE NOT TO MAKE.

>
>2) Does the hashtable remember the last N lines, or does it just fill up and
>stop changing?

The hash table is based on positions, not lines.
I don't know what happen when it fills up, never happened to me:-)

>
>
>I realize I can make TWO books, one for each side, but maybe that is not
>necessary..  Please someone help me!

It seem to be the easiest way.
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