Polyglot Opening Book of Random Moves?

[hgm]

Hi Chris — that looks like the best option. Python Chess looks excellent.

— Steve

Well, there isn't any need to program anything yourself for this. You can just use an engine like Brutus Random to play a zillion games, and convert the resulting PGN to a pook using Polyglot.

Well, there isn’t any need to go downloading external stuff, working out how to get it to work, clogging up your HD with humungous PGN data and humungous book binaries for this. Just use Python, keep the whole thing under your own control (like add filters in the future if desired), generate depth programmable random moves on the fly and dump the resulting data as PGN or EPD.

You can use Python without downloading it?

[chrisw]

Hi Chris — that looks like the best option. Python Chess looks excellent.

— Steve

Well, there isn't any need to program anything yourself for this. You can just use an engine like Brutus Random to play a zillion games, and convert the resulting PGN to a pook using Polyglot.

Well, there isn’t any need to go downloading external stuff, working out how to get it to work, clogging up your HD with humungous PGN data and humungous book binaries for this. Just use Python, keep the whole thing under your own control (like add filters in the future if desired), generate depth programmable random moves on the fly and dump the resulting data as PGN or EPD.

You can use Python without downloading it?

Said the guy without a Python install.

[hgm]

Said the guy without WinBoard install...
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Why would I want Python? To program what WinBoard already does out of the box?