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Subject: Re: openings book format

Author: Graham Banks

Date: 14:56:30 08/27/05

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On August 27, 2005 at 15:49:12, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On August 27, 2005 at 15:39:31, Mark Mason wrote:
>
>>I have purchased a download copy of Shredder 9 UCI from Shredderchess.com and
>>with it comes an openings book but it is in .bkt format.
>>
>>I also have purchased S9 on CD from Chessbase which has an openings book
>>Shredder 9.ctg.
>>
>>I would like to be able to use the .bkt book in Chessbase. Does anyone know:
>>
>>a) are the 2 books the same ?
>
>As far as I know the ChessBase book is worse than the Shredder book.
>
>>b) is there a way to convert .bkt to .ctg to be able to use with the CB GUI ?
>
>No. There is no public specification of the "ctg" format, so nothing can convert
>from or to it.
>
>--
>GCP


It could be done if somebody with the programming skills could be bothered.
My programmer friend found a way of converting the Chessmaster book into ctg
format, so no reason why other book formats can't be converted also.
I might ask him if he'll find a way to convert Arena books into ctg format.

Graham.



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