Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 09:24:10 11/17/03
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On November 17, 2003 at 12:05:27, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On November 17, 2003 at 11:55:57, Omid David Tabibi wrote: > >>It is interesting that creating a ctg book from the same database doesn't take >>as long! > >Yes. Shredder is slow. Books are more compact than ctg though. >Make your own bookbuilder, solves all problems ;) > >>And all this time will be spent creating a book which will work *only* on >>Shredder interface. With that regard, fbk format is preferable, but there >>doesn't seem to be a tool which can create fbk books. And when loading fbk >books in Shredder, it also takes a hell of a lot of time. > >Yes, same problem - Shredder book format is slow. > >I see no advantage of FBK over PGN if you're importing games, not >move trees. I used FBK for move trees and ChessBase Light handled those >without limitations. I have the database stored in PGN (actually just converted it to CBF to save disk space). But in order to create an opening book out of it, I have to convert it to either CTG, BKT, or FBK. CTG works only for Fritz interface, so I am left with the other two... (and I don't want my engine to directly handle the openings) > >-- >GCP
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