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

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 13:08:03 03/22/04

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On March 22, 2004 at 16:04:00, Russell Reagan wrote:

>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.

Hi,

interesting is, that some programmers gave very interesting comments about a new
and free book format.

If we have these free sources is in 1-2 years other not free opening books
formats not "sooo" important.

Best
Frank



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