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Subject: Re: Mihaly has a point (NT)

Author: Mathieu Pagé

Date: 20:13:29 09/09/03

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On September 09, 2003 at 12:25:10, Mihaly Szalai wrote:

>Mike,
>
>what is the difference between cracking TheKing.exe and the
>CM9000 opening books? You don't have any objection about the
>latter, you even tried it yourself... (see your post below).
>Please, be more consistent.
>
>Mihaly
>
>PS. Btw. the deadking patch changes only one byte in TheKing.exe...
>PPS. I meant no offence.
>
>
>Subject : Re: Converting CM9000.OBK to CM9000.ctg
>
>Posted by : Mike Byrne on August 27, 2003 at 14:21:19
>
>On August 27, 2003 at 13:19:25, Drexel,Michael wrote:
>
>>You need a Hex Editor to change the first line in CM9000.OBK
>>from:
>>42 4F 4F 21 6E 59 04 00 00 00 00 00 0C DC ...
>>-- -- -- -- -- -- -- --
>> modify delete
>>
>>to:
>>55 47 57 53 6E 59 04 00 0C DC ...
>>
>>Save the altered file to CM9.OBK, create a new CM9000.ctg book in Fritz and
>>after:
>>Edit -> openings book -> import old book -> CM9.OBK
>>you have the complete CM9000 book in *.ctg format.
>>All variations are converted properly, however the probabilities are often wrong
>>of course.
>>It is possible to correct it manually, however that would mean a lot of work.
>>? for 0
>>None for 25
>>! for 50
>>!! for 100
>>for example
>>
>>Michael
>
>btw , that works for all CM9K books ...



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