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Antillian God Member Offline Brilliance without dazzle! Posts: 1757 Joined: 01/05/03 Gender:	Re: Why don't publishers provide access to pgn fil Reply #7 - 11/28/06 at 23:47:13	Post Tools	Print Post
	Alias wrote on 11/28/06 at 13:09:24: New in Chess has pgn-files for their magazine and yearbook. I've started to use Bookup. For that I make pgn-file of games from books, like Cox's d4-book. Then it's easy to add lines and analysis to that. (Of course, this could also be done in other programs like CB or CA.) It would save some time if the publisher would provide that file. Also, before purchases, especially of repertoire books, games would help to see which lines are recommended. Yes, I too use Bookup to study opening books. First thing i do when I get a new opening book is to download all of the games (It helps when the book has a game index, which many still don't do) and then import them into Bookup. Bookup is indespensable for opening study. (Okay, Mike, you can pay me later ) I don't have the professional version, but I find the Express version is good enough. However, I am never able to find all of the games and I often have to reconstruct several game manually - a waste of time in today's technological age.

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Antillian God Member Offline Brilliance without dazzle! Posts: 1757 Joined: 01/05/03 Gender:	Re: Why don't publishers provide access to pgn fil Reply #6 - 11/28/06 at 23:32:38	Post Tools	Print Post
	Alias wrote on 11/28/06 at 13:11:15: antillan: Have you seen this thread? http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1158910805 Thanks for the link. I am familiar with the http://wwwu.uni-klu.ac.at/gossimit/c/book.htm wesite and I too think it is a fantastic resource. Unfortunately, it has no recent books. Interestingly enough, accordingly to this site, Gambit Publications objected to game files of their books being uploaded. So there are no gambit books available at this site. This makes me think that publishers are really nervous thta their book sales will sufffer if they provide access to the game files. When I decided recently to embark on a comprehesive middle game study, I chose to purchase books that I knew already had game files available on this site ! (Fortunately, a lot of the great classics are here.) So the publishers benefitted in my case from having the game file available. But alas, I fear I am fighting a lost cause. Since when did business listen to their customers

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GMTonyKosten YaBB Administrator Offline Mr Dynamic? Posts: 3185 Location: Clermont-Ferrand Joined: 12/19/02 Gender:	Re: Why don't publishers provide access to pgn fil Reply #5 - 11/28/06 at 18:26:37	Post Tools	Print Post
	Fortunately for the opening you can download ChessPublishing eBooks, which include all the games annotated!


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Alias God Member Offline Posts: 1512 Location: East of the river Svartån Joined: 11/19/04	Re: Why don't publishers provide access to pgn fil Reply #4 - 11/28/06 at 13:11:15	Post Tools	Print Post
	antillan: Have you seen this thread? http://www.chesspub.com/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1158910805

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Alias God Member Offline Posts: 1512 Location: East of the river Svartån Joined: 11/19/04	Re: Why don't publishers provide access to pgn fil Reply #3 - 11/28/06 at 13:09:24	Post Tools	Print Post
	New in Chess has pgn-files for their magazine and yearbook. I've started to use Bookup. For that I make pgn-file of games from books, like Cox's d4-book. Then it's easy to add lines and analysis to that. (Of course, this could also be done in other programs like CB or CA.) It would save some time if the publisher would provide that file. Also, before purchases, especially of repertoire books, games would help to see which lines are recommended.

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Antillian God Member Offline Brilliance without dazzle! Posts: 1757 Joined: 01/05/03 Gender:	Re: Why don't publishers provide access to pgn fil Reply #2 - 11/28/06 at 09:26:51	Post Tools	Print Post
	IMJohnCox wrote on 11/28/06 at 00:15:32: You mean just the games? Sounds like a good idea to me. I don't know. Yes, just the games. And the positions or game fragments in the case of endgame books or other cases where they aren't actual real games.

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IMJohnCox God Member Offline I Love ChessPublishing! Posts: 1551 Location: London Joined: 01/28/06 Gender:	Re: Why don't publishers provide access to pgn fil Reply #1 - 11/28/06 at 00:15:32	Post Tools	Print Post
	You mean just the games? Sounds like a good idea to me. I don't know.


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Antillian God Member Offline Brilliance without dazzle! Posts: 1757 Joined: 01/05/03 Gender:	Why don't publishers provide access to pgn files? 11/27/06 at 23:56:41	Post Tools	Print Post
	It makes it so much easiar to study a book when the pgn files are readily accessible. In the past I used to search for the games one by one online and download them, since I don't own a database. So why don't publishers provide access to pgn files? Everyman did it once for Tango! A Dynamic Answer to 1 d4, Richard Palliser, However, they have not repeated it for subsequent books. Was this just an experiment that did not work? Why has it not been done for subsequent books? Do publishers really fear that book sales would suffer if the pgn files were available to download? I suppose if the book were only a database dump, then that might happen. But the value of a genuine quality chess book is not in the mere games and game fragments, it is the commentary and explanations. On the contrary, I would be more likely to buy a chess book if I had easy access to the pgn files.

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