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search polyglot chess books for chess frontend (blind user)

Posted: Sun Jan 11, 2015 11:52 am
by qwertologe
Hello,

i develop a chess frontend for blind people under Linux.
It has an optimized character interface and can speak.
Minimum requirement is a normal console/terminal.
Supported are UCI-engines, since i use the polyglot adapter.
It is developed as a Ruby gem and will be released under GPL v3.

I search polyglot opening books and like to ask you, if you can send me
one or the download link together with a few words which confirm that you
own the rights and that you give me the permission to release it together with
my gem.
If you send a book/link, i will put your answer into the gem for
documentation purposes.

It would be nice if you can give me some information about the book(s):

- author name
- year
- average ELO
- average halfmoves
- halfmoves
- purpose of the book
- best used with which engine(s)
- recommended name
- recommended short name

I will shorten the information to about one line for each book.
The information will be available in the frontend.

Thank you for your effort.

Kind regards
Michael Arlt

please read this thread

Posted: Mon Jan 19, 2015 12:21 am
by qwertologe
This post slided down due to spam-detection and delayed publication.
I add this small note to bring it up in the list - i hope to get more readers - sorry for the inconvenience.