Author: Pete Galati
Date: 19:24:14 04/19/00
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On April 19, 2000 at 20:23:34, Jason Williamson wrote: >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. How about you send both the Chessbase format (.cbh?) and the reduced sized pgn? Reason being, that a database with >60,000 games load pretty fast in a Chessbase format, but it takes a very long time in pgn. Pete
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