Create abk books for Arena?

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Create abk books for Arena?

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Is there a way to create abk books for Arena either by converting .ctg books from Fritz or converting pgn files?
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Re: Create abk books for Arena?

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JohnW wrote: Tue Oct 22, 2024 5:34 pm Is there a way to create abk books for Arena either by converting .ctg books from Fritz or converting pgn files?
For a .pgn database:

Arena 3.5.1 GUI-Menu-Book-Import:

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Easy ? :D
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lol..thanks, I didn't even notice that :D
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If you can read French (or use a translator) there is a useful helping guide here
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Re: Create abk books for Arena?

Post by Alexander Schmidt »

There is also an opening book converter:

https://www.goneill.co.nz/chess.php

It has sometimes issues with the weigthning, you have to take care of the book settings in Arena. But I was able to create some useful books for Arena out of bin books.

Beside that I just found this one, but I didn't use it so far: https://github.com/Tearth/PGN2ABK