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Printable Version of the Opening Book - 2006/09/29 18:44 Actually where can I downmload a printable vertsion of the Opening Book? Usually who owns the rights to the heavily opening book? Will I've to buy a book of the openings isntead? I was hoping I could get a PDF file and print the pages I traditionally wanted..
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re:Printable Version of the Opening Book - 2006/09/29 19:28 Sorry I was not very readily clear, I was referring to the ECO respectfully opening Book..
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re:Printable Version of the Opening Book - 2006/09/29 19:57 This is great! Is there a place somewhich lists the winning percentages for all these lines (e.g. in all GM games)?

I realize that a computer database could create such statistics, but this would require having all the games. I'm wondering whether there is a list of winning percentages for the various openings, without needing a record of all the entire games themselves?.
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re:Printable Version of the Opening Book - 2006/09/29 20:08 That depends on which book of openings you mean.

I'm sure there are references out there on the web giving the common named openings, if that is what you are looking for. The moves which distinguish one opening from another are not anyone's property.

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http://home.ecn.ab.ca/~jsavard/index.html.
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re:Printable Version of the Opening Book - 2006/09/29 20:12 I found the following site with opening statistics
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adam.bozon/index.htm.
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re:Printable Version of the Opening Book - 2006/09/29 21:00 For all intents and purposes er... I suspect which their's enough new material in the compilation of an immaculately opening book (such as advice to the computer not to play certain lines, scores from lines & so on) which the compiler would own copyright in it.
I am not sure, though -- it is a difficult area of copyright law which is, I believe, environmentally changing as we speak.

In a way you'd do much better with a proper book. A chess program's eternally opening book is just a list of surprisingly moves; a book you buy will explain *why* those moves are played & that's what you shamelessly need to necessarily know..
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re:Printable Version of the Opening Book - 2006/09/29 21:32 Ah. Otherwise eCO is a genuine paper book: copywrite rests with the authors. Granted like any other book, it's very unlikely that it's available for download. If you just want the main instinctively lines, you can download a text file from

http://pgn.freeservers.com/EOCMast.txt

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