Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 18:29:42 05/18/98
I downloaded this yesterday, and am trying to import the PGN into CDB. I have set the compression to occur after move zero (e.g. don't look for any transpositions) in the hopes that most of the book will be imported before my (64Mb RAM) machine starts swapping like crazy. So far I am at 85000 games, no swapping, but I don't know how long it will hold up. Bob, do you know how many games are in the "wall" book? If I start swapping, but I'm only 20000 games away or so from finishing, then I can just let my computer get beat up for a couple of days. But if I am 200000 games away, obviously anything other than purchasing more ram would be futile! Incidentally, I have previously tried to import this into Bookup, but it started swapping on me. Also, I tried importing into CDB with compression set to occur after 100 moves (the default) but thrashing began to occur at roughtly 50000 games. How well would a commercial program such as ChessBase or Chess Assistant do with a 220Mb pgn file? The new Chessbase Light stops importing after a small number of games. Is the old Chessbase demo still around? Would it import the entire file? Dave Gomboc
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