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Subject: Re: Tool for making books for Genius DOS?

Author: John Merlino

Date: 13:58:27 07/13/02

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On July 13, 2002 at 16:54:12, F. Huber wrote:

>On July 13, 2002 at 14:33:46, Chris Taylor wrote:
>
>>I know Rob Weir has a web page for changing book formats. (forgot the url)
>>
>>I would like to change the Lunsen database.pgn into genius, any ideas.
>>
>>So far I have over 100 games from Genius v various programs, and get the idea
>>that The Genius book is just too old to keep up with modern books?  Or is it
>>Genius Dos on auto232 is just too old to keep up with modern engines?  Still on
>>an AMD 1700, Genius is running the fastest, I have ever run it!!
>>
>>Chris
>
>Hi Chris,
>
>here is a freeware utility to convert book between Fritz, Genius, ChessMaster,
>Rebel and WChess - it really works very fine:
>
>http://www.volny.cz/evcomp/fgcrwnew.zip
>
>But I´m sure, a (500MB) Lunsen book converted to Genius format would never
>be accessable by this old (but excellent!) program.
>
>Best regards,
>Franz.

One note of warning for the future -- the opening book format in Chessmaster
9000 is not the same as the format in previous versions. This tool will only
work for CM4000-CM8000.

jm



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