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Subject: Re: Call for an Open Book Format

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 10:48:07 02/22/06

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On February 22, 2006 at 13:19:12, Jay Urbanski wrote:

>On February 22, 2006 at 03:06:03, Eelco de Groot wrote:
>
>>On February 21, 2006 at 23:12:35, Jay Urbanski wrote:
>>
>>>see previous message
>>
>>Hello Jay, I think a lot to be said for that but there may be practical and
>>commercial reasons for Jeroen and Vasik. I don't have any Chessbase programs and
>>also not bought Rybka, but I can believe that for Jeroen, Chessbase has the best
>>options for his bookediting work. That was why even Pro Deo ran in Chessbase GUI
>>in Leiden the last years, something almost amounting to blasphemy... If I may
>>use that word... So in fact we have a de facto industry standard for bookmakers
>>that is not free, and because it is not, converting a ctg book to another format
>>is not easy. Not much to be done about it I think...
>>
>> Regards, Eelco
>
>I wonder how much work it would be to reverse engineer the .CTG format?

Is that legal?

Regards
Dave



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