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PolyGlot Opening Book, a popular opening book format that allows chess engines to play quickly in the opening period. The format and relative tools are developed by Fabien Letouzey. Polyglot is open source, licensed under the GPL, and is able to run on various operating systems.

=See also=
 * Chess Engine Communication Protocol
 * Opening Book
 * Vice PolyGlot-Videos

=Forum Posts=

2004

 * UCI2WB "replacement" project news by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, March 23, 2004
 * Wanted: tester for new UCI adapter (UCI w/ WinBoard) by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, March 26, 2004
 * PolyGlot by Salvo Spitaleri, Winboard Forum, April 01, 2004
 * Experimental PolyGlot by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 06, 2004
 * minor change in PolyGlot by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 08, 2004
 * PolyGlot and pondering by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 13, 2004 » Pondering
 * What is Polyglot in computer chess?? by Jouni Uski, CCC, April 14, 2004
 * New PolyGlot by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 15, 2004
 * Polyglot queries... by Roger Brown, Winboard Forum, April 18, 2004
 * PolyGlot news by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 19, 2004
 * New PolyGlot by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 21, 2004
 * New PolyGlot by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 27, 2004
 * PolyGlot 1.0 by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, April 30, 2004
 * New: PolyGlot 1.0 (UCI adapter) by Fabien Letouzey, CCC, May 04, 2004
 * To Roger o Volker, about Polyglot by Carlos Pesce, Winboard Forum, May 10, 2004
 * PolyGlot glitch by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, June 08 2004
 * Safe I/O by Fabien Letouzey, Winboard Forum, December 10, 2004

2005 ...
2006 2007 2008 2009
 * PolyGlot 1.2 (multi-platform UCI adapter) available by Fabien Letouzey, CCC, January 30, 2005
 * Polyglot & log-file by Stefan Knappe, Winboard Forum, February 10, 2005
 * PolyGlot 1.3 available (UCI adapter) by Fabien Letouzey, CCC, June 04, 2005
 * A bug in Polyglot 1.3 ? by Niyaz Khasanov, Winboard Forum, July 01, 2005
 * Input thread under polyglot by Peter Fendrich, Winboard Forum, August 15, 2005
 * How to make book using polyglot? by Russell, CCC, October 19, 2005
 * Unanswered polyglot questions by Thomas Logan, CCC, October 20, 2005
 * Problem with PolyGlot 1.3 by Álvaro Begué, CCC, October 30, 2005
 * Books for polyglot by Carlos Pesce, Winboard Forum, January 01, 2006
 * Threading issue under Polyglot by Nathan Thom, Winboard Forum, September 18, 2006 » Thread
 * Question for Polyglot book experts by Günther Simon, Winboard Forum, January 02, 2007
 * Polyglot books use with any UCI engine under CB GUI ! by Marc Lacrosse, CCC, October 28, 2007
 * Polyglot 1.4w5 by Fonzy Bluemers, Winboard Forum, September 09, 2008
 * Polyglot glitch? (feature?) by Günther Simon, Winboard Forum, November 14, 2008
 * Polyglot now supports the UCI protocol:-) by Michel Van den Bergh, CCC, December 22, 2008 » UCI
 * Polyglot 1.4w22 by Fonzy Bluemers, Winboard Forum, May 25, 2009

2010 ...

 * Polyglot : a small request by Olivier Deville, Winboard Forum, October 01, 2010
 * Problem using XBoard + Polyglot + Zippy on FICS by Ben-Hur Carlos Langoni, CCC, November 15, 2010 » XBoard, Free Internet Chess Server
 * New Polyglot and opening books by Olivier Deville, Winboard Forum, December 29, 2010
 * polyglot compile instructions by matematiko, Winboard Forum, April 16, 2011
 * polyglot en passant square by Marco Belli, CCC, September 12, 2013 » En passant
 * CTG to polyglot format by matematiko, Winboard Forum, October 23, 2013 » CTG
 * Polyglot 2.0.3 memory limit by Juan Molina, CCC, December 12, 2014

2015 ...
2016 2017 ...
 * stockfish uci commands in polyglot by mike schoonover, CCC, February 16, 2015
 * Winboard 4.8.0b and PolyGlot 2.0.3 adjudication issues by Ferdinand Mosca, CCC, February 22, 2015
 * Polyglot-format books: large boards by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, March 04, 2015
 * Polyglot and make-book by Ed Schröder, CCC, February 26, 2016
 * all the old tools are vanishing... by Jack Crawford, CCC, February 27, 2016
 * REBEL | ProDeo book available in Polyglot format by Ed Schröder, CCC, March 05, 2016 » Rebel, ProDeo
 * Polyglot 1.4 Update by Michael B, CCC, March 13, 2016
 * icsdroneng and polyglot by Alexandru Mosoi, CCC, March 11, 2016
 * opening book standards by Jef Kaan, CCC, August 10, 2016
 * Opening book in bin-format by Alexander Schmidt, CCC, August 17, 2016
 * Polyglot book learning by Günther Simon, CCC, August 24, 2016 » Book Learning
 * Where can I find the current PolyGlot version? by Frank Quisinsky, CCC, September 10, 2016
 * book .bin by diego suarez, CCC, September 11, 2016
 * Polyglot dump-book problem/bug/limit by Günther Simon, CCC, September 26, 2016
 * Polyglot pickBest by Dennis Sceviour, CCC, December 29, 2016 » WinBoard
 * How to Make a .BIN opening book (for non programmers?) by Brendan J. Norman, CCC, April 03, 2017
 * How do you use .bin books? by John Wentworth, CCC, June 21, 2017
 * Viewing a bin book file by Giovanni Lavorgna, CCC, July 30, 2017
 * Cannot download Polyglot or KingSlayer source code by Dean Menezes, CCC, December 31, 2017
 * Re: Cannot download Polyglot or KingSlayer source code by Harm Geert Muller, CCC, January 01, 2018 » UCI2WB


 * Polyglot extension tool by Ed Schröder, CCC, January 06, 2019
 * Bin book adapter? by Ovyron, CCC, July 18, 2019 » CFish

=External Links=

Chess adapter

 * hgm.nubati.net Git - polyglot.git hosted by Harm Geert Muller
 * GitHub - sshivaji/polyglot: Polyglot chess opening book program hosted by Shivkumar Shivaji
 * Polyglot 1.4w by Fonzy Bluemers
 * Polyglot book format by Michel Van den Bergh
 * Polyglot opening book reading by Niklas Fiekas » python-chess
 * PolyGlot - Hispanic Chess Engines
 * Create a Polyglot Chess Opening Book by Steve Maughan, YouTube Video » Maverick, SCID, David J. Barnes, Ed Schröder

Misc

 * polyglot - Wiktionary
 * Polyglot (disambiguation) from Wikipedia
 * Polyglotism from Wikipedia
 * Polyglot (book) from Wikipedia
 * Polyglot (computing) from Wikipedia
 * Temur Kvitelashvili - 21 guitars (1990), YouTube Video

=References=

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