Author: John Merlino
Date: 13:19:28 03/30/01
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On March 30, 2001 at 15:18:27, Mike S. wrote: >On March 30, 2001 at 13:33:08, John Merlino wrote: > >>This book is identical to the "Mentor.OBK" file, except that it is marked as >>read-only during installation. The reason that it is so large is that it >>contains all of the opening annotations used by the Game Analysis feature. > >I've noticed, that the book directory contains german and french language >versions of the Mentor.obk, containing the opening annotations in these >languages! IIRC, the manual doesn't mention these files. > >I was able to utilize MentorGerman.obk by copying, and renaming it to >Reference.obk (after deleting the previous english Reference.obk). Now, it's >used by CM8K in the library room. No problems; the translation of the comments >is good IMO. > >But I have seen, that the file size is only about 2/3 of the original >Mentor.obk. Is there any downside of using MentorGerman, are there variations or >comments missing or something? > >Maybe you should mention these Mentor books on the CM website, because I think >this is a very useful feature which shouldn't go unnoticed by french and german >speaking customers. > >Regards, >M.Scheidl Wow, I totally forgot that those were still included! They're actually quite old, as I believe they were created for CM5500, and have not been updated since then. I believe that the German and French books are smaller than the English book because there are less annotations. And, actually, you can also have Chessmaster use the German book if you also use it in place of Mentor.obk. This will put the German text into the Game Analysis feature as well. I would say that this is one of those "intentionally undocumented features", and that is why it is not on the website. Those files have probably not even been LOOKED at in several years, and the dev team would probably not want to call attention to their existence! ;-) I really have no idea why they are in the product at all! jm
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