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Subject: Re: Crafty's

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 18:40:31 05/18/98

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On May 18, 1998 at 21:29:42, Dave Gomboc wrote:

>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!

let me put it like this...  you are about 25% done.  :)  IE I think
there
are 330,000 games in the mother.. :)

>
>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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