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Subject: Re: EGTB's on CD ROM

Author: John Merlino

Date: 16:17:33 04/23/01

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On April 22, 2001 at 23:46:56, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On April 22, 2001 at 22:35:00, William Bryant wrote:
>
>>Now that I have a new laptop (for work, honest) with a bigger hard drive, I'm
>>looking to add the full set of 5 man EGTB's.  However, I'm still stuck with a
>>v56k modem (no high speed connection).
>>
>>Has anybody burned the complete set onto CD ROMs's (or DVD's for that matter)
>>that they would send me to duplicate. (I'm not looking for comercial CD's, just
>>the complete set of 5 man tablebases from the Crafty site).
>>
>>I will gladly pay shipping both directions.
>>
>>William
>>wbryant@ix.netcom.com
>
>
>One possible choice here is Graham Laight.  I burned a set of 12 CDs for
>the London chess tournament where he ran Crafty.  If you can work out a deal
>with him, I don't mind seeing these CDs become "world travelers" where he sends
>them to you, you send them to someone else, etc.
>
>We are trying to buy a DVD burner now, so it might be possible to burn a couple
>of DVDs with all the 3-4-5 piece files in a month or two...

Hope you have a big checkbook balance, because those things are brutally
expensive (minimum $4,500, last I checked -- not to mention the blank DVDs at
$20 a pop -- you'll cry every time one of them is ruined on a bad write
process). But, hey, you can just get the university to pay for it! I forgot!

jm



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