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Subject: Re: John Merlino

Author: John Merlino

Date: 11:19:33 04/10/01

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On April 10, 2001 at 14:11:35, Sune Larsson wrote:

>On April 10, 2001 at 13:47:48, Eric Tom wrote:
>
>>Hi John!
>>
>>I love Chessmaster 8000 and I hope that people will stop mocking its playing
>>strength.  For the opening book, can't you combine all the books that are
>>available at www.chessmaster.com into one gigantic book?  It would be
>>interesting.  I'm currently running a 5/10 fischer time control tourney?  Is 32
>>for hash too much?
>>
>>Thanks,
>>Eric
>
> Yep, to combine these books into a big one would be interesting -
> but, as far as I know, CM can only take *clearly* less than
> 0,5 MB as book...:(((

Actually, without annotations, a book can be only about 128K maximum, since the
data is very compressed (about two bytes per move). However, with annotations,
the book can be up to 16MB, as each move can have up to 256 characters of
comments.

jm



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