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Subject: Re: data conversion from CI format to PGN

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 22:37:01 05/07/04

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On May 08, 2004 at 00:40:32, margolies,marc wrote:

>i worked out a few ways to do this without using proprietary 'expert' software
>of CI.
>1> before i follow up, is this a legitimate topic?

The answer is ... put yourself in CI's shoes and try to assess what you are
going to post to from their perspective.

Of course, CI  Expert 5.0 does let a user export all games and they can easily
be imported in chessbase - annotations and all.  That is a function
(exportability to pgn) that they tout in their sales pitch.  So in essense,
their own software lets you do this conversion.  But their software does have a
activation copy protection scheme.

Question for you?  Why would you want to tell perhaps non-licensed users how top
gain access to their proprietary database - since all licenesed users already
have that capability?  Is that illegal?  I don't know , I 'm neither a lawyer or
a judge.  But on the surface it doesn't smell right and I would tread lightly.

I'm a big fan of CI.  I have every single Volume 1-88 (89 is in on it's way)
sitting on my bookself as well as the softcopy versions.

I like CI because they give you the best of the latest.    The games published
by CI are very high quality and most are well annotated.




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