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Subject: Re: Questions about Unix World and Chess...

Author: Gian-Carlo Pascutto

Date: 01:13:33 11/12/01

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On November 11, 2001 at 22:53:48, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote:

>1) I have a lot of games in chessbase files (.cbf and .cbh), is pgn the only
>choice when running a Unix system? Should I get a huge harddisk?

CBH is a private format so you cannot access those databases outside
of a ChessBase program

CBF is too, but it was reverse-engineered once, so you may have more
luck, still PGN is the standard for import/export

You can convert them to PGN and import them into SCID (scid.sourceforge.net),
and then delete the PGN files afterwards.

I don't think there is much SCID _can't do_. It has it's own fast
and compact database format.

>2) What about connecting to the Chess Servers? What program should I use?

xboard. works just like winboard

>3) About VMWare: can I run Fritz, Shredder, Tiger, Rebel under VMWare?

No idea.

>4) Running engines: can I use Ken Thompson's tablebases, or only Nalimov's?

Not sure what you mean here...what has this got to do with Unix?

--
GCP



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