I used Grahm Oneill's tool to extract and convert Book.bin and Rebel.bin into TXT, ABK, and PGN format.
For usage with Arena, Lucas, and other Chess GUI's.
Please see attached.
"https://www.goneill.co.nz/chess.php
KNOWN ISSUES: with conversion and why it is best requested from Source:
The program starts from the initial positions and finds all the possible moves listed.
-Every transposition is created as its own list of moves.
-There is also the possibility of positions repeating themselves.
-The BIN file might contain positions that can't be reached by just following the moves selected.
-If the book was created without moves that have a zero weight (and so should never be played by
the engine) these positions will be completely lost by the program.
The solution would be to check every possible move from the position to see if
an entry for the new position is found, but that would make the program very slow
and much more complicated."
Therefore a request for ABK format from source is best.
I used Grahm Oneill's tool to extract and convert Book.bin and Rebel.bin into TXT, ABK, and PGN format. For usage with Arena, Lucas, and other Chess GUI's.
Please see attached.
"https://www.goneill.co.nz/chess.php KNOWN ISSUES: with conversion and why it is best requested from Source: The program starts from the initial positions and finds all the possible moves listed. -Every transposition is created as its own list of moves. -There is also the possibility of positions repeating themselves. -The BIN file might contain positions that can't be reached by just following the moves selected. -If the book was created without moves that have a zero weight (and so should never be played by the engine) these positions will be completely lost by the program.
The solution would be to check every possible move from the position to see if an entry for the new position is found, but that would make the program very slow and much more complicated." Therefore a request for ABK format from source is best.
AllBookFormats.zip