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empty ctg. book

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:52 am
by Horst
Good day Gentleman, could anyone please send me an empty ctg. book to my e-mail , thank you very much! horstbiewald@sbcglobal.net

Re: empty ctg. book

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 1:55 am
by Norm Pollock
open a dos command window and type

copy con empty.ctg

then hit <enter>
then press <control> and hit <Z>

and you have it.

Re: empty ctg. book

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 12:09 pm
by nuff
Isn't a ctg or abk book a gui issue? The GUI creates the ctg along with the ini and ctb/cto files.

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Directory of E&#58;\Chess\ChessBase\Books\Fritz10

21/04/2007  11&#58;04       <DIR>          .
21/04/2007  11&#58;04       <DIR>          ..
15/03/2007  10&#58;35                8,204 Fritz10.ctb
15/03/2007  10&#58;35          240,173,056 Fritz10.ctg
15/03/2007  10&#58;35              524,300 Fritz10.cto
13/03/2007  17&#58;10                  423 Fritz10.ini

               6 File&#40;s&#41;    240,705,997 bytes
               2 Dir&#40;s&#41;   33,334,062,080 bytes free

Re: empty ctg. book

Posted: Sat Apr 21, 2007 4:33 pm
by Mike S.
Yes, it consists at least from 3 files (CTB/CTG/CTO). The ini is created later, automatically.

If you select in the Fritz interface: File/New/Openings book... you can choose a name and save a new, empty book. But it isn't zero bytes... on my system, the new CTG file has 8.192 bytes.

The content, IOW the moves can be added to a new CTG book by Edit/Openings Book/Import games...