Author: William Wentworth
Date: 07:37:05 07/25/01
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On July 25, 2001 at 08:09:48, John Hatcher wrote: >On July 25, 2001 at 06:57:14, William Wentworth wrote: > >>On July 24, 2001 at 20:57:16, Dann Corbit wrote: >> >>>Not for me, it was asked in this message: >>>http://www.icdchess.com/forums/1/message.shtml?180953 >>> >>>Since the header of that message is not descriptive of the actual problem, I >>>thought I would start a new thread so that the OP might find the answer. >>> >>>I'm pretty well ignornant when it comes to CB. >> >> >>I know how to import games and I want to import the first 70 plies of thOse >>1.502.035 games. Whether they're played by GM's or patzers is irrelevant but I >>want to build an opening book of exactly that database: why is a horse of >>another color :) , but that's another matter. >>The problem is , probably , my computer settings because of which it' d take >>about 70 hours to import all games : 32 Mb / 380 Mhz >>I'm not a computer expert and I don't know how to change those . >> >>Willy > >I don't think that your computer settings are the problem. In fact, I'm not >aware of any settings that would affect the speed of importing games to a book >(except, of course, the number of plies you import), and I import games to >Chessbase books all the time. It's a moderately slow process. > >How about splitting the 1.5 million games into smaller files that can be >imported in a reasonable time per file? For example, all games played within >certain years, or all games starting with ECO code "A", "B", etc. That way you >can build the book over a period of days, one file at a time. > >JOHN Great idea ! It's simple but one has to think of it :) Willy
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