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Renegat23: Move any topic Max.01 here. Request to Max.01: pls, write all its files and news for this topic. Thanks
Max.01: Alexander Alekhine vs Capablanca em Moscovo, 1913. Boris Spassky vs Bobby Fischer em 1972 Picture of 1928, we can see in the foreground: Nimzowitsch, Capablanca, Tarrash and Marshall. Behind these, we have: Max Euwe, Yates, Tartakover, Spielmann, Reti, and Mies Bogoljubow This child is CapaBlanca with his Father ... Stauton Howard was born in 1810 and died in 1874, was a chess player and scholar of Shakespeare. Little is known about the life of Stauton before their appearance on the scene xadrezistica, however has said that he was proclaimed an actor. After the victory in St. fond of France in 1843, he was recognized as the strongest chess player in the world (however was to be established before the World Cup in 1886). Stauton was a master of the World Chess Champion and non-official way. He was also author of books on chess and wrote columns for newspapers. Today, his name is remembered by the famous set of pieces of Stauton Chess. Coins: Silver Commemorative Coin to honor the Tigran Petrosian The currency of Armenia was issued in silver to honor Tigran Petrosian, World Champion for six years and one of the most famous Armenians of all time. This rare example of silver measuring 38 mm, weighs 31.1 grams and gives a value of 5000 DRAMs. Credits: 10,000 DRAMs in Turin Olympics This rare gold coin was issued to commemorate the Chess Olympiad held in the Italian city of Turin in 2006. The coin is dedicated to the victory of the chess team of men in the 37th World Chess Olympiad of which 143 countries participated. In addition to the symbol of the Olympics on one side, the coin contains the names of all players: L. Aronyan, V. Hakobyan, K. Asryan, G. Sargsyan, S. Lputyan and A. Minasyan Value: 10000 DRAMs; Weight 8.6 gr.; Diameter 22 mm Number of parts - 1000 Coins: Commemorative Coin of the 26th Chess Olympiad º. Commemorative coin of the 26th Chess Olympiad held of the city of Thessaloniki, Greece in 1984.
Max.01: http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/diaeng.htm Fritz convert all this old books in *.CTG: Chessmaster =*.obk Hiarcsbook = *.hbk Fritzbook =*.fbk Geniusbooks = *.bok Rebelbooks = *.mvs All old formats fritz import inside book : *.FBK;*.MVS;*.OBK;*.BOK;*.CGS;*.HBK;*.HBB All these formats are converted into *. CTG then it is easy to convert to PGN. (I think yes) These are additional to this topic: Openings book, learning from a database -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- The program learns from the games it plays. But you can also enhance the book in other ways. The tools for this are in the menu Edit – Openings book : Import book merges the contents of a different book into the current one. Import old book converts a book in the old (FBK) format and imports the contents. Import games merges the games of a selected database into the tree, including full statistics. Learn from database adds the statistics from a selected database without actually importing the moves into the tree. Add priority analysis imports the variations of a specified database and marks the moves as preferred tournament moves. The program allocates “weights” to the individual lines of the book. These weights control the probability with which the program will choose the move in a game. The value can range between –125 to +125. The values are initially set to zero. The weights are given in the “Engine” column in the book window.
carlospesce: Hi! Yes all these formats can converted to *.CTG But, how can you convert *.CTG to PGN? This can be interesting.. Cheers CarlosPesce
Max.01: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://www.horizonchess.com/FAQ/Winboard/Winboard3.html What if you still want to convert Chessmaster OBK books to CTG? You then need to use FGCRWNEW which can convert opening books in FBK,CTG,MVS,Wchess and genius to each other. What you do is to convert OBK to fbk books. The use Fritz itself to import the books in FBK format. As far as i can tell though this method works only for Chessmaster 4000 to 8000. Even though chessmaster 9000's books are still named OBK, there apparently is some change in format , and FGCRWNEW doesn't work on them. It seems that there is a way around this problem though.Drexel,Michael from CCC writes "You need a Hex Editor to change the first line in CM9000.OBKfrom:42 4F 4F 21 6E 59 04 00 00 00 00 00 0C DC ...-- -- -- -- -- -- -- -- modify deleteto:55 47 57 53 6E 59 04 00 0C DC ..."Is there a easier way? A GUI controlled opening book which all engines can use (as in Fritz for example) would makes thing a lot easier.(Another way is to use Nunn tests,but you need batch files for this in Winboard, see Section [F.2]) Currently though the Winboard protocol (unlike UCI and hence some UCI engines like Shredder require the GUI to provide a opening book) does not have specific provision for separating the opening book from the engine. One idea has being to provide "book engines" which play the openings for the main engines before passing control over to the main engine. This has being discussed before on the Winboard protocol mailing list and a possible modification to allow Xboard/Winboard to handle the switch between a "book engine" and the "main engine" may be introduced in Winboard protocol 3. Here's the thread on book engines. For now, though there is one book engine that handles the switch by itself - Bookthinker (which comes with the Winboard engine Thinker) . Bookthinker is a book engine that plays the opening before handing control over to the engine. The way to do it is as follows. Download and install Thinkboard (engine and interface), then transfer the files bookthinker.exe (the book engine) and thinker.dat (the actual book file) into the directory with the engine you want to use it with. For this example, I will be using bookthinker with List - a Winboard engine with no opening book that is in c:\chesseng \list While thinker.dat cannot be renamed, you are free to rename bookthinker.exe. In my example I have renamed it to listbook.exe Alter your winboard ini by inserting Bookthinker.exe in front of list.exe in your normal entry. For example mine now reads "Listbook list" /fd=c:\chesseng\list because I have renamed bookthinker.exe to listbook.exe You can also create custom opening books for use with bookthinker. A problem is that while Bookthinker allows you to create your own book from a file of PGN games, there is no way to prioritize moves using NAGS like ! or ?, so you should clean the pgn file of such symbols because using it to create a book. However Winboard engines that do not support force command (only a few of them) will not work with Bookthinker. There is no way currently to send command line or parimeters to engines using Winboard because Winboard.ini does not support quotes. Hence engines that send init strings or need command line parameters probably will not have problems too. Some engines may also have time allocation problems. For some engines not sending the command parameters will have minor effects (eg sending book learn commands,hash table sizes) ,for others it can be a big problem. For example The King will be almost useless since the OPK string will not be sent. This is a pity since The King when used as a Winboard engine relies on a external GUI book. Nejemet will also have a problem since the /xb command is not sent. So what are the solutions? Because 90% of all of such problems involve using bookthinker with Chessmaster/The King, here we shall assume that you want to run Chessmaster with a opening book outside the Chessmaster GUI. First you can use another interface that provides support for Winboard (or even UCI if you want to play with Polyglot!) and provides a opening book. Arena is the obvious one. Either use Arena's built in opening book (which has some flaws because it doesn't support transposition in older versions of Arena) or use it with bookthinker as described here . But what if you don't like Arena? The problem with quoting, only occurs if you run engines via the Winboard.ini file. If you prefer to run them using the command line options, then you create a shortcut as described here . Much of the problem with The King can be avoided if you use the patch to disable the OPK check of course. Jason Kent has created a package to make use of The King (all versions) with FICS (direct link 1006K). It includes support with Bookthinker but you need to read the instructions (direct link to text file) carefully. It avoids the problem with bookthinker by disabling the opk check. The last method favoured by me would involve using inbetween. See my section on Chessmaster and bookthinker. It's probably wise to turn off any other opening books that the main Chess engine may possess when using them with Bookthinker. Though Shredder is a UCI engine, you can use it via a uci2wb adaptor in Winboard. It will have no opening book though, so you will need bookthinker. Volker Pittlik describes here now to use Shredder as a Winboard engine with bookthinker. However, there are some timing problems, see here . The alternative adaptor PolyGlot might work better though,particularly version 1.3 which provides opening book support,so you no longer need bookthinker.
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Max.01: Free service by Ben Marini and Douglass Davis. Online conversion of Yahoo Chess Game Notation to PGN, so games played at "Yahoo" can be read by most chess programs. Link: http://www.douglassdavis.com/pgnchess2006/ Freeware by 'Black Eagle'. Converts Yahoo Chess Game Notation to PGN, so games played at "Yahoo" can be read by most chess programs. Download from http://www.baydsoft.com/yahoochess/default.asp?p=chess (248 kb). PGNUTILS Freeware by Tom McCormick. DOS. A suite of useful PGN utilities. New version October 2006. Download PGNUTILS (962 KB) from this site. Several excellent programs for handling pgn files: automatically clean up syntax errors, remove comments, remove unnecessary tags, remove games by players who have < 2500 ELO, fix Linux/Unix pgn files for use in Windows and much more. http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/softeng.htm - And more tools here
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Max.01: http://www.enpassant.dk/chess/softeng.htm#KONVERT Useful programs for conversion of different file formats (chess databases) You can find more conversion utilities (to/from more "exotic" formats) on ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/CONV. ca2pgn3.zip Chess Assistant to PGN. cb2pgn.zip ChessBase to PGN. ( Carlos here)cba16.zip CBASCII v. 1.6 (16-bit version). ChessBase to PGN & back. Unzip with pkunzip -d switch. cba3216.zip CBASCII v. 1.6 32-bit version for Win 95/NT. ChessBase to PGN & back. Unzip with pkunzip -d switch. cb2nic.zip ChessBase to NicBase. gam2cb.zip ChessGenius 4/5 GAM files to ChessBase. nic2cb.zip NicBase to ChessBase. nic2ca.zip NicBase 2 or 3 to Chess Assistant. nic2pgn.zip NicBase3 to PGN. NicBase2-files must first be converted to NicBase3 with NicTools3. pgn2ca.zip PGN to Chess Assistant. pgn2cb.zip PGN to ChessBase. pgn2nic.zip PGN to NicBase 3.
carlospesce: Hi! Thanks! But this is the "old" format, not .CTG format, or im wrong here? Thanks in advance Carlos Pesce
Max.01: Importing games to the openings book -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Menu: Edit – Openings book – Import games This is a very powerful function. It allows you to build giant opening trees with a minimum of effort. You can, for instance, import all the games of your main database, or all from a specific variation (to create a highly specialised book). The games of the database will be merged to a tree of positions. Crucial for the size of the resulting tree is the length of the variations which are put into the tree. It is not very meaningful to put entire games into it, so you should truncate them at a specific point. The program allows you to limit the length of the variations in two different ways. You can specify that every variation should be “n” moves long. It is more sensible to limit the variations relative to the ECO classification. This results in long variations for theoretical main lines (ECO classification position found late in the game) and short variations for side lines (i.e., early deviations). Obviously, if you choose a shorter length – absolute or ECO-relative – the tree will be compact. But then you are liable to lose some valuable information. If you choose a very large value then the tree will be gigantic, and it will contain a lot of superfluous information. A good practical value for importing games is ECO-relative 20. You can also include variations (i.e., analysis that might be included in the games), but these are not included in the statistical analysis.
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Max.01: CHESS RECORDS by Tim Krabbé Last updated: 3 May 2008 http://www.xs4all.nl/~timkr/records/records.htm
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Max.01: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/gossimit/c/curious.htm famous.zip 500 famous games (most featuring Kasparov) are presented with verbal comments. For all who would like to read the main ideas without any variations. Thanks to Mick Hensler for this extraordinary contribution. (06/June/2001) kas-top.zip (24th Edition) Tauno Leinonen (Finland) has compiled over 60(!!!!) different annotations of the famous Kasparov - Topalov game on Jan 20th 1999 in Wijk aan Zee, which has been coined as the "game of the century". The comments are by GM Ivanov, MIG, GM Seirawan, Ftacnik, Bilounov, Balinov, Eric Schiller, Kasparov himself and of course several versions of the Fritz-Engines - and others. Moreover this multitude of different annotations packed into one collection is most probably a fine world record, achieved by Tauno. Thanks for improving that fine work again and again! As a tribute to this extraordinary game I deviated here from the rule not to provide any grandmaster game annotations on my chess site. (31/Mar/2003) rp-r-oss.zip A number of Rook vs. Rook+Pawn Endings with only one winning move. Some positions are trivial, others really tricky! Thanks to Akorps for this witty contribution! (29/May/2000) rxc3-bw.zip A collection of about 1400 games with black sacrificing the exchange against the white knight on c3. This idea might appear in different lines of the sicilian defence with an half-open c-file for black after exchanging the white knight on d4: ... c5xd4, Nf3xd4, Nc6xd4, ... The collection shows that black gets often some pawns and extra attacking chances for the exchange. Thanks to Akorps for this interesing contribution! (16/Feb/2000) endgame.zip A collection of about 100 endgame - positions from a Tablebase CD; annotated with Crafty or some other engines! Thanks to Chris Taylor, England for this curious collection! (BTW: I have no idea by what criterium these positions have been chosen. Maybe they represent some exxxtra long forced mates. 11/Jan/2000) smothmat.zip Games with "smothered mates": enjoy the classical, unusual and "almost smothered" cases I found in my databases. The +150 games are annofritzed for your fun and convenience. (06/Sep/99) 2600.zip A collection of exactly 7979 super-GM games (both players have ELO of at least 2630). For all guys with CBLight who need a downsqueezed version of 2500.zip! (23/Jul/99) 64golden.zip 64 Golden Games from Chess Informant 1966-1998. Annofritzed by Tauno Leinonen. Thanks! 2500.zip THIS IS A SPECIAL GEM for people doing automatical annofritzations! A selection of +75.000 true "grandmaster" games (=both players having an ELO of over 2500)! Short games with less than 12 moves are eliminated! I have created this database as a reference database for annofritzations in order to avoid references to games between "nobodies", which are contained en masse in any Megabase. I have used Knut Neven's "Research" 1.3 Mio games Megabase as the main source for this collection, because Knut has given (approximate) ELO's also to most classical players. Thus you will find in that collection both recent grandmaster games and the games between top players of former eras, like Anderssen, Morphy, Steinitz, Zukertort, Chigorin, Pillsbury, Tarrasch, Lasker, Schlechter, Janowski etc. BE AWARE! 7 MB ZIP-File! You need Chessbase 6.0, CB 7 or Fritz5.00 or higher for opening that file!! If you do so with CBLight only the first 8000 games will appear! Sorry, I will NOT split that file into 8000er pieces... Instead of complaining, please look at the file 2600.zip: it has just 7979 games with both players beyond ELO 2630. loong.zip The loooongest chess games I could find! More than 100 games with more than 140 moves each! Most of these are boring draws, but some are interesting fights. The 269 move record game between Nicolic and Arsovic is even too long for CBH format (ending at move 255!). Really stunning is the 151 move fight that Piket won against Lautier in the 1995 Amber blindfold tournament in Monaco (probably the longest blindfold game in chess history). - I have eliminated all Computer and ICS stuff. Many of the extra-long games are strored in different databases with different lengths. I chose just the longest (I hope)... See Tim Krabbe's Chess Record Page for a more serious approach to that issue. quickmat.zip NOW EXTENDED! This ZIP-File includes now two databases with quick mates: A collection of +1000 "shorties" with mates in 12 moves or less! Quick wins and opening blunders en masse! All games are annofritzed and sorted according to ECO-Codes. See the dangers of the Blackmar-Diemer-Gambit (D00) and other quick opening killers! (In some cases it is only the last move of the losing side that leads to immediate mate. In these cases the "out of book" comment precedes immediately the mate - and then there are no further annotations - sorry!) The collection contains an introduction text file, giving hints about some outstanding "quickmate specialists". Enjoy! A collection of additional +3000 games that ended in 14 moves or less with mate (without annofritzations). This collection includes all kind of stuff: ICC games, the fool's mate in 2 etc., Sam Loyd's quickest mate in 4 with black repeating all white moves; two more interesting "symmetrical" shorties under the name "Munchhausen" and much more weird stuff. (I have no time to look in detail at all these games. Look and enjoy! Sorted according to ECO. althofer.zip is a collection of some games of Prof. Ingo Althöfer, University of Jena, Germany. Prof. Althöfer did some experimental research with computer-assisted chess playing. Ignacio Derecho provided eight annofritzed games of an experimental match between Althöfer, assisted by "Double Fritz", against GM Timoshchenko. Thanks! knibi.zip Over 300 games with knight and bishop vs. king endings! See how weak and strong players succeed or fail to mate the bare king with knight and bishop. Enjoy some really curious struggles and see some sad draws! The probably most curious game of that collection ends both with checkmate and draw!! It is being discussed in Geurt Gijssen's May 1999 column "An Arbiters Notebook" at Chess-Cafe. 3queens.zip Some people seem to need more than one queen to mate the bare king. In this collection you can find games with 2, 3 and even 4 queens against the bare king. And again some of these are draws... 2knights.zip +280 games, that ended with an endgame of two knights vs. king (and possibly some pawns on either side). stalmat.zip +760 games that ended in a stalemate. From trivial draws to horrible blunders... allwer.zip The Allwermann Saga: a no-name player scored at the Böblingen Christmas 1998 tournament +2600, or was it Fritz5.32? See Allwermann's collected games. (Here is an Allwermann-article in the german newspaper "Die Welt"). Allwermann's games at Böblingen 1998, with german annotations approved by Allwermann himself! myanmar.zip A sensational report about the incredible ELO-boom in Myanmar (=Burma). See how chess heroes like Zaw Win Lay, Moun Moun Latt and dozens other cracks from Myanmar in south east asia raised their ELO-count to GM-level within the last two years. Look at some of their fabulous games (against each other) and see what others say about this phenomen... under.zip +1400 Games with underpromotions from 1810 - 1999! I have tried to eliminate the "junk" cases (e.g. the underpromoted piece is being captured immediately after promotion).
jparra: Hello. I made this work some years ago. It includes some files in Spanish and English with ECO Code listings in various formats: .CBH, .CKO, .PGN, .DOC, .PDF and .HTML. hxxp://www.megaupload.com/?d=YSJ0S4CE Best regards. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- In Spanish: "Códigos ECO 1.0 Spanish" es un trabajo realizado por mí en el año 2005 que contine todos los códigos ECO de la Enciclopedia de Aperturas traducidos al español, 2.014 variantes en total. Existen varios archivos clasificados en 4 directorios (carpetas): - Códigos ECO (Chessbase): Base de datos en formato Chessbase con las 2.014 variantes de apertura y todos sus nombres traducidos al español. También he creado la correspondiente Clave de Aperturas en Español, que podréis utilizar en cualquier base de datos de Chessbase siguiendo los pasos adecuados. En el texto de introducción de la base de datos os explico todo esto y algunas cosas más. - Códigos ECO (PGN, DOC, PDF): Contine 3 archivos con los códigos ECO en español, en formatos PGN, Word y PDF. Las variantes de apertura están anidadas en forma de cascada y con distintos colores para su mejor identificación. - ECO Codes (PGN, DOC, PDF, HTML): Ídem en inglés, incluyendo otro archivo en formato HTML. - El Formato PGN de Chessbase: Archivo (en formato Word y PDF) con una explicación en español de las particularidades del formato PGN de Chessbase 8 que me he encontrado al intentar importar el archivo original en formato PGN. Saludos.
mrlimbo: The program allows you to limit the length of the variations in two different ways. Uh what program ?
rupelstiltskin: CTG is a Chessbase format, so I am pretty sure he is talking about the Chessbase or Fritz family of software.
Renegat23: rupelstiltskin There is no mention of the format of CTG
rupelstiltskin: It's in the Subject Title ... "Importing games to the openings book . CTG" If you don't see it go up one level to "English speaking area" then look at the "Topics". You can even see it at the top of Max.01's post: Posted: Yesterday 21:30. Post subject: Importing games to the openings book . CTG - new!
Max.01: Hi, guys you can import several formats to a book making this a book merge, merge my post i see in book topic, for example I get a CTG book, and put in the storm or 3.2 fritz CTG or PGN games all formats, where games you should have options of latitude and longitude that you put in your new book. it is on the fritz edit there is also import old book or save to disk that is also very good option and other esperero have helped all no doubt I am available, ah thanks for reminding the CTG Renegat23, but the topic is for download the games for the books and not the books books for making them a very nice book merge all.
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