Answers.Body: <p>Arena Chess GUI can do this from every PGN file or manually. But I would be very surprised if you didn't find this using the Search.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Ok I'll try it and get back to you.
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Answers.Text: An additional tip when trying Arena: The GUI gives full statistics of an opening book, but if you want those to be displayed you have to import or add *entire* games from a PGN which start from the initial position. You can also enter positions in the book from EPD files and continue editing them, but then the book statistics will *not* show-up.
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Answers.Body: <p>Chessbase or Droidfish would be my options.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: chessbase is not free droidfish is not for pc
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Body: <p>Please Suggest resources for creating, viewing and updating opening books or chess trees offline on PC. preferably with the ability to add moves or lines manually and with open source or free software only.</p>
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  <p>I found this page <a href="https://rebel13.nl/download/books.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer">rebel13.nl</a>
  with some promising reading but i was unable to download the file poly17a.7z to see what it can do and I was not able to open bin books with arena also
  the search continue for me
  banksia and scid are next and of course what obs are?</p>
  
Tags: <opening><software><recommendations><opening-traps>
Title: Resources for creating opening books or chess trees offline on PC
ThreadText: # Resources for creating opening books or chess trees offline on PC
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2024-06-23)
  
  Please Suggest resources for creating, viewing and updating opening books or chess trees offline on PC. preferably with the ability to add moves or lines manually and with open source or free software only.
  
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  I found this page [rebel13.nl](https://rebel13.nl/download/books.html)
  with some promising reading but i was unable to download the file poly17a.7z to see what it can do and I was not able to open bin books with arena also
  the search continue for me
  banksia and scid are next and of course what obs are?
  
  **Tags:** opening, software, recommendations, opening-traps
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_1 on 2024-06-23. Score: 1
  
  Arena Chess GUI can do this from every PGN file or manually. But I would be very surprised if you didn't find this using the Search.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: Ok I'll try it and get back to you.  
  > **username_1**: An additional tip when trying Arena: The GUI gives full statistics of an opening book, but if you want those to be displayed you have to import or add *entire* games from a PGN which start from the initial position. You can also enter positions in the book from EPD files and continue editing them, but then the book statistics will *not* show-up.  
  
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  ### Answer by username_2 on 2024-06-23. Score: -1
  
  Chessbase or Droidfish would be my options.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_0**: chessbase is not free droidfish is not for pc  
  > **username_2**: Nobody pays chessbase and everyone uses chessbase.  
  > **username_2**: And Droidfish can be used on PC. E.g. by bluestacks.  
  
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