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Subject: Re: Opening books in .obk format?

Author: Alex

Date: 08:43:16 06/19/04

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On June 19, 2004 at 03:24:48, Dan Honeycutt wrote:

>On June 19, 2004 at 01:31:17, Gopikrishna wrote:
>
>>How are Opening books like .obk made? Also when I open it with wordpad or
>>notepad its not readable since its in machine language.No other way to read or
>>modify them? Thanks.
>
>Made from PGN games collection or by hand or some combination thereof.  Binary,
>not machine language but still not readable by notepad.  No way to read/modify
>them unless the "maker" of the book file is available.
>
>Dan H.
 If your interest is combine opening books say chess base and .obk rebel has a
"merge" faculty as does later versions of Fritz.  The only problem is u cant
read thme subsequently in Chessmaster so all your Notes get trashed.



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