Author: Mike S.
Date: 17:09:17 10/31/03
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On October 31, 2003 at 19:42:20, Geoff Lane wrote: >(...) >>CM9K books cannot be converted to other usable formats. > >http://www.chess-archive.com/ccc.php?art_id=313052 You didn't try that, or didn't take a look at the conversion result. This only *seems* to work, but the moves and probabilities have been checked and compared to the original version. The conversion result is totally broken and useless!! IIRC it also has been said that Fritz conversions of older CM books like CM8000.OBK were faulty, but I'm not 100% sure about that. As a replacement in other GUIs, I think a good large database of strong IM and GM games could be used to generate a solid and simple opening tree. This is very common with many freeware engines too. IMO the ply depth shouldn't be too big for The King, which has good opening capabilities of it's own. Maybe even CM9000's games database could be used for that, although it's in Tasc format. Maybe it could be converted to be able to create a CTG tree from it, I don't kono. (Btw. to make it clear, *I* have never recommended to use general.ctg, but the above idea.) Maybe this would have been a better decision, to avoid any "product mixing protests", although even some basic computerchess specific editing (not engine specific, but too risky gambits and the like) would be missing in such a simple tree. But I think King could handle that quite well. Regards, M.Scheidl
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