Author: James Robertson
Date: 20:49:18 03/05/99
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On March 05, 1999 at 22:21:05, Dann Corbit wrote: >On March 05, 1999 at 22:13:30, James Robertson wrote: > >>On March 04, 1999 at 21:17:13, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>On March 04, 1999 at 20:50:48, James Robertson wrote: >>>[snip] >>>>I am searching for a nice PGN file to turn into a book for my program. Perhaps >>>>there is some way your data can be organised into a pgn file for bookmaking? >>>If you just want raw PGN, there are more than one million games available at my >>>FTP site. >> >>Where is your ftp site? >ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/ > >To make a long story short, the games are in files a.zip, ..., e.zip as >compressed pgn. If you have a slow link, it is much smarter to download the >files individually. The directory a-openings has all the ECO A files, the >directory b-openings has the ECO B files, etc. > >Suggestion: >Connect with command line ftp and log on as anonymous (if you don't want to >enter your real email name, please no swear words in your fake email name -- >that bugs me. Besides which I can find out who you are anyway with traceroute >and I see your host plainly at connection time.). After changing directory to >pub/a-openings, set the mode to binary and do a mget * command to collect all of >the a files. Then start up 4 more threads and do the same thing for b,c,d,e. > >There's a lot more chess stuff there too. Have fun. Wow; you're right. There is a tremendous amount of stuff there. Let me go check it out. James
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