Michal Rudolf wrote:
Hi!
>> Point is, however, that CB could easily change the format at any time and
>> all work was in vain. It is kind of unlikely though as they spread the
>> format that widely that they'd really get some nasty posts from their
>> customers... (Especially as there is no alternative to CB to read a CB
>> file.)
> I doubt there is any risk of that.
Agree.
> First, they need to allow users of older CB
> version to read database, second, I believe they get more money selling all
> kind of commercial databases than CB application itself. Changing formats
> will
> limit profit from these databases
This argument is actually the one why I feel it is brain dead dumb from
them not to just document it and release it's internals for free. It
would be pretty clever of them to just provide some commandline tool for
conversion. They'd open up a whole new community of users, IMHO.
Probably, their main issue is that you'll loose chess media if you're
beyond CB itself and this is also thightly bound with windows media
system (ie. not portable ever).
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