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Subject: Re: Unanswered polyglot questions

Author: Russell

Date: 11:58:13 10/21/05

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On October 21, 2005 at 07:28:01, Thomas Logan wrote:

>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

Actually Perhaps Other engines can use polyglot's .bin files. Ofcourse u would
have to run the engine using polylgot. For ex Shredder 9.1 can use Polyglot .bin
files quite well.



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