Author: Pete Galati
Date: 08:42:01 04/19/00
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On April 19, 2000 at 10:11:19, Robert Hyatt wrote: >On April 19, 2000 at 03:27:43, Jason Williamson wrote: > >>On April 18, 2000 at 23:47:01, Pete Galati wrote: >> >>>[......] >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Just out of curiosity, do you ever offer a pgn collection of the games that >>>>>>>Crafty plays online? >>>>>>> >>>>>>>Pete >>>>>> >>>>>> >>>>>>Yes.. there is a huge pgn file on the ftp site (I am not sure exactly which >>>>>>directory). It is called "crafty.pgn" I think... >>>>>> >>>>>>But note it is _big_. >>>>> >>>>>It is big! It's in the games directory, it's 19.7mb in a Gzipped file. Anyone >>>>>using Netscape will have to right click on the file to be able to download it as >>>>>crafty.pgn.gz, otherwise it will want to save as crafty.pgn.pgn if you left >>>>>click, and you'll undoubtably have trouble unzipping it if it saves that way. >>>>> >>>>>Pete >>> >>>When you unzip this file, you end up with a pgn file that's 93.4mb, it's a bit >>>on the hard side to open it or edit it. Forget about Winboard or Chessbase Lite >>>(at least on my computer) it's just too big. Extreme Chess seems to have been >>>able to open it, PFE can open it. There seems to be 60,238 games. They're not >>>in completly standard formatting that everyone is used to with pgn, everything >>>is in neat columns (extra spaces between moves to maintain the columns). >>> >>>This must have been Gzipped at maximum compression. If I keep this file I'll >>>remove the odd formating & spaces. Who the heck is Bluebeard? Heck of a rating >>>he has. >>> >>>Pete >> >> >>I am gonna guess that some of the pgn problems in that file stems from the fact >>that it dates back to something like 1992 or something. >> >>Jason :) > > >They aren't that old. Crafty has only been around about 5 years or so. >However, those games are played by crafty/scrappy on ICC, ICS (before it >changed to ICC), FICS, and chess.net. most like the 'column' format although >it is not very 'compact' for storage... If someone wants to run it thru >a program like chessbase and then back out again to make it smaller I will >certainly put the new version on my ftp site. I copied them to .cbf Chessbase format, unfortunatly, somehow I lost 49 games, probably operator error on my part, but I'm not going to fix that because it took hours of tedious work to do it. If someone actually has the fullscale Chessbase (instead of a Chessbase Chess program interface) this would be a really fast convertion. I had to copy them 4000 games at a time. Unfortunatly .cbf might be an obselete format so I don't know how many people can use it, but if you want I can send it to you or upload it to my webpage's server and you could get it from there, it's about 10mb as a .cbf file. All the extra info between the pgn games is lost when the games are copied. Pete
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