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Subject: Re: Opening Book Compatibility?

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 04:32:02 01/05/99

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On January 04, 1999 at 13:37:54, James T. Walker wrote:

>On January 04, 1999 at 13:25:47, Jonathan Oliver wrote:
>
>>Are opening books (the actual files) compatible between different chess
>>programs?  I only own CM6000, so I can't try it myself.
>>
>>Jonathan
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
>Hello Jonathan,
>I think not.  At least not directly. Sometimes a program will have the ability
>to convert the books to another file type and then it can be reconverted to the
>file type that another program can use.  I think if the ending of the file is
>different then you must convert them somehow.  Like Jun_Book.ctg and cm6000.OBK.
>Jim Walker

Fritz5 imports some "old" books like fbk (I don't know the others at the moment,
don't have it by hand). Additional I only know of one tool that converts
Fritz-Genius-Rebel-Chessmaster-WChess books into each other. Limitations:
1) Chessmaster has a limit of some 120kB
2) Fritz only old books (FBK, not CTG)
3) original rebel.mvs only lines after 1.e4
4) playing preferences may not be taken over for sure

It is called FGCRW and should be available e.g. at Gambitsoft, about
DM70=$40-$45.



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