Gilbert Rebhan a écrit : > pgeorges wrote: > >> Scid will never support natively *.cb? files but only be able to import >> them once for all, then use its own data structures (*.si? files). So >> why not simply use the intermediate format : PGN ? >> > > yup, use the pgn format as interstation works but > only if you have a software that is able to read cbf | cbh > format and export it to pgn, means you're bound to chessbase ?! > > There should be a fileformat all chess software should use, > maybe own dialects, but similar, something like xml. > Blame on chessbase, which get's close to microsoft. > > Regards, Gilbert The universal chess format already exists : PGN. And Scid and chessbase (and nearly every chess software I am aware of, can import / export this PGN format). Related to Chessbase, I don't see what is wrong with their format : they have to use a binary format, like Scid uses one, because PGN is not a reasonable format for a database.
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