Hello jk,
I'll try to answer in chunks, as this pushes the limits of my knowledge of
SCID.
Also, I need to check with other versions of SCID to confirm your problems.
I tried to reproduce your behavior by:
- opening Tools / Book Tuning
- selecting Elo2400.bin
- changing the third value ("9") to
> You need to use Polyglot using the command line. I would recommend you get
> Polyglot directly from their project page if the Polyglot that comes with
> SCID does not work.
1. FYI, when I installed scid-4.5.2-win64.exe, polyglot did not appear anywhere
in the /scid-4.5.2 subfolder tree.
> I'm attempting to create a book.bin using polyglot-14 and I'm wondering
if I should use any specific parameters to optimize it for SCID?
Since a .bin book is simply a PGN file that has been compacted in a way to
be readable by a chess engine, the parameters should be related to the
chess engine
After you explained that books.bin is for UCI use, I scanned SCID's .\bin\books
folder and saw 4 *.bin files plus a readme.txt.
contents of readme.txt:
performance and varied books are fromhttp://chessbazaar.mylivepage.com
Thanks to Marc Lacrosse who gave the pointer.Those books were at first d
