Re: [chessx-developer] Holiday Hacking

[Ejner B. <ej...@gm...>]

On 12/23/06, Michal Rudolf <mr...@kd...> wrote:
> Ejner Borgbjerg,  sobota, 23 grudnia 2006 00:23:
> >If you have never seen Bookup, there is a "free beer" version
> >available (unfortunately only for Windows it seems) which works for 30
> >days. (bookup.com). Otherwise I can try to describe my ideas in detail
> >if you are interested.
> Sure, please do.

The concept of positional database and the training functionality is
what I find really useful. When "training" an opening book, an option
to force the subject to play each alternative could be useful but is
missing in Bookup. More generally, you could tag moves that are "ok"
or "not ok" in a given position such that there may be more than one
way of playing in a puzzle or endgame, and bad moves can be listed for
the explanations sake without interfering with training. There are
many improvements possible along these lines, I believe.

The main problem with Bookup imo (of course, besides that it is not
open source), is that it has a quite poor user dialogue - to the point
of user harrassment. I think we can only do better on that point...

Ejner