Author: Jason Williamson
Date: 17:23:34 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 will do it this weekend for you.
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