#4 Creating smaller opening books

[René]

Hello,
First, I want to congratulate everyone working on this project, keep up the great work.

I have been using the Opening trainer for a bit, and I want to section the ECO book by opening, so I can train on a specific opening. I got pgn2book, and a pgn version of ECO.
I copied a section of the ECO to another pgn file, but when I use pgn2book, I get this message:

$ ./pgn2book Siciliana.pgn
Not recognized: e4:PGN read error.

But it does work if I use pgn2book with a pgn file of an annotated game:

$ ./pgn2book Polyak-Bronstein.pgn
Opening Book Polyak-Bronstein.pdb created (1 games with 1 lines in 1 records).

If someone can help me fix this, I will post the smaller opening books for everyone.

[René]

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File Added: Siciliana.pgn

[René]

This is the pgn I'm trying to convert

[Nobody/Anonymous]

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The pgn seems to be incorrect. You can try to read it with a different program (e.g. PGN Pad, Jose) and save it again - try pgn2book with the saved file, again.

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I checked your PGN - the game termination is missing. For example line
1. e4 c5
must be changed to
1. e4 c5 *
... as the game is over here.

You can simply do that via loading the file into Jose (also on Sourceforge) and save it - it will add the terminiation.

[René]

The Sicilian opening book

[René]

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Thanks for the help.
I'm attaching the first opening book, the Sicilian and its variations. It corresponds to the same pgn file already uploaded, but corrected.
File Added: Siciliana.pdb

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The Ruy Lopez opening

[René]

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Hello!
After not having much time for hobbies, I've resumed my chess activities. Here's the Ruy Lopez opening book. I hope you find this useful.
File Added: RuyLopez.pdb