Author: john watson
Date: 13:10:27 08/10/00
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On August 10, 2000 at 14:15:38, Dann Corbit wrote: >On August 10, 2000 at 11:22:11, john watson wrote: > >>Mr. Corbit, >> >>In the last couple of months I downloaded all openings and all >>games from your site but I did't get more than 2.5 million unique positions. >>Where exactly on your site is that huge, 100 million >>position database located ? >>I can't seem to find it. >>What is it's size? >>I'm not going to download all of your huge database. I'd settle for >>some 5 million positions. That'll be more than enough for an opening book. >>If you did't already, can you upload that much? > >It's a lot of work for me to post a new set to my ftp site. That's because I >run a large number of filters on every game to ensure that there are no mistakes >in it. Only a little over half of the games are currently on my ftp site, and I >doubt I will post the updates even within the next few months. > >I will be doing a big update to the EPD part of the site after our IBM mainframe >arrives at the end of this month. I currently keep the EPD database in SQL >server on the machine I am typing this message from. However, now that I have >about 30 gigs of data, this machine simply won't do. So I am going to store the >information on DB2 on the IBM big iron. So, we'll see next month. Do you have any idea how to convert .epd files into .pgn files so that they can be entered into a book tree ? At the Pittsburgh University site are all kinds of converters available, but I did't see any .epd converters there.
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