Book creation papers

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Robert Pope
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Book creation papers

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I was wondering if anyone could point me to some good papers about opening book creation/development. I think I want to create and implement an opening book database in Abbess that is more than lines chosen at random from a text file. Maybe with minimaxing scores like Brainfish, as well as usage statistics.

I thought I saw a couple things posted last year, but I'm not really finding anything current.
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See Thomas Linke's thesis on dropout expansion (used in Checkers with good results):

https://brainwagon.org/2007/04/04/linck ... -problems/

Some talkchess discussion from a few years back:

http://talkchess.com/forum3/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=44705

Some description of what I now implement for book creation and move selection:

https://arasanchess.org/programr.shtml
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More direct link to Linke's thesis:

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/E ... 676fdbf79e
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Thanks!