Converting ctg books to bkt books??

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tomgdrums
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Converting ctg books to bkt books??

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Is it possible to convert an opening book in ctg format to the shredder bkt format??

Thanks!
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Re: Converting ctg books to bkt books??

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tomgdrums wrote:Is it possible to convert an opening book in ctg format to the shredder bkt format??

Thanks!
Nope 8-)
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Re: Converting ctg books to bkt books??

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Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:
tomgdrums wrote:Is it possible to convert an opening book in ctg format to the shredder bkt format??

Thanks!
Nope 8-)
There is a CTG reader in Brutus Chess and in Daydreamer chess.

With that, it should be easy to convert to any format you like if you are a programmer.
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Re: Converting ctg books to bkt books??

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Dann Corbit wrote:
Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:
tomgdrums wrote:Is it possible to convert an opening book in ctg format to the shredder bkt format??

Thanks!
Nope 8-)
There is a CTG reader in Brutus Chess and in Daydreamer chess.

With that, it should be easy to convert to any format you like if you are a programmer.
Thanks! Unfortunately I am not a programmer. I am a musician! :D
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Re: Converting ctg books to bkt books??

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Is the bkt format documented anywhere? I've thought about writing a multi-format book converter utility, but documentation for anything other than Polyglot format is sort of hard to come by.
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Re: Converting ctg books to bkt books??

Post by Edmund »

there is a ctg specification on the rybka forum:
http://rybkaforum.net/cgi-bin/rybkaforu ... ?pid=27096

then there are many opening books where just lines of moves are stored in long algebraic notation