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Subject: Re: Best opening book for Chessmaster 9000

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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