Author: John Merlino
Date: 18:59:42 09/28/04
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On September 28, 2004 at 17:47:47, David Dahlem wrote: >On September 28, 2004 at 16:23:46, DB wrote: > >>I downloaded the Wizzard book from the arena chess site. I copied it into the >>chessmaster 9000 folder contaning the other opening books. I then changed the >>file extension from .abk to .obk which the Chessmaster uses. I then selected >>the R2 personality and chose the new wizzard.obk opening book. It seems to work >>fine. Is this the wrong way to go about it. > >This does not work. It may appear to work fine, but that's because it's probably >playing moves from the default CM9000.obk book. I tried it myself, with an .abk >book i created myself, without any moves past depth 5. Yet book moves up to >depth 20 were played. So changing the file extension of an Arena .abk book to >.obk WILL NOT WORK in Chessmaster 9000. > >Regards >Dave You are correct; this will not work. The code is smart enough to know that, if the file that is given is not a real Chessmaster format obk file, then it will default back to CM9000.obk. jm
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