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Subject: Re: Unanswered polyglot questions

Author: Thomas Logan

Date: 04:28:01 10/21/05

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On October 21, 2005 at 03:56:26, Fabien Letouzey wrote:

>
>Hi Thomas,
>
>On October 20, 2005 at 20:41:05, Thomas Logan wrote:
>
>>>- "-pgn"
>
>>>Name of the input PGN file.  PolyGlot should support any
>>>standard-conforming file.  Let me know if you encounter a problem.
>
>>Any standard conforming file ?
>
>PGN is a standard.  Some "PGN" files do not conform to it.
>
>>Arena Abk, Shredder bkt, CB ctg
>
>Are those formats documented anywhere?

They are not even database formats but opening book formats
>
>>>- "-bin"
>
>>>Name of the output binary file.  I suggest ".bin" as the extension but
>>>in fact PolyGlot does not care.
>
>>Will this allow output to be used as an engine book for engines that use the
>>format book.bin ?
>
>I doubt it.  ".bin" means nothing more than "binary, not text".  PolyGlot's .bin
>files are compatible with Fruit and no other engine that I know of.
>
>Fabien.

Thanks for the reply

Its a great engine you created

btw am I correct you are also the author of polyglot ?



Tom



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