Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:53:53 03/03/06
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On March 03, 2006 at 16:44:19, Majd Al-Ansari wrote: >I think making utilities that will convert a book from one format to another is >probably a better idea. That shouldn't be too hard to implement, but it would >need some incentive from the GUI producer. Most of them like to keep their book >formats cryptic. For example the author of Shredder was easily able to convert >his proprietary book format into .ctg once an incentive was found. It behooves >me why he wouldn't make a simple utility for all those who bought the non >chessbase Shredder to move their books to a chessbase Shredder. The only reason >I can think of is that it might not have been (to him at least) the best >lucrative option. The professional book builders do not want that to happen. I predict that it will not. If it is possible to export an opening book from (for instance) ChessBase, they would be crazy not to strip out their intense labors so that some competitors could just take their body of work.
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