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Subject: Re: Arena GUI & *.ctg Opening Books

Author: Russell Reagan

Date: 13:04:00 03/22/04

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On March 22, 2004 at 05:43:09, Mike Taylor wrote:

>
>I am enjoying Arena, a very nice piece of freeware.
>
>A nice addition to the GUI would be to allow it to utilize *.ctg opening books.
>
>Yes, I know Arena is meant for amateurs, but would it be a difficult thing to do
>for many of us that own CB opening books ?
>
>Just a thought :)

You can probably forget about using .ctg books in any GUI except one of the
Chessbase GUIs. It is not the fault of the Arena programmers. Chessbase won't
tell anyone the .ctg file format, so no one but Chessbase can use it.



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