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Subject: Re: Complete EGTBs on 4 CDs?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:04:10 12/10/01

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On December 09, 2001 at 18:13:13, Robert Hyatt wrote:

>On December 09, 2001 at 10:08:24, Edward Seid wrote:
>
>>Christmas sale at the ICC store.  Among the items is a collection of 4 CDs by
>>Chess Assistant that supposedly "include all the positions with 3, 4 and 5
>>pieces".  Since I actually downloaded all 3/4/5 EGTBs from Hyatt's FTP, I know
>>that they take up >7 GB.  7 GB on 4 CDs??  Is this false advertising by ICC?  I
>>guess they could mean DVD, not CD, but I find that unlikely.
>>
>>The link to the advertisement is http://www.chessclub.com/store/chessassistant/
>>
>>Comments?
>
>
>Not possible.  3-4-5 piece files total up to 7.5 gigabytes in a compressed
>format.  That would fit on two DVD disks, or 11 CDs...


Does anybody sell these as two DVD-ROM discs?

For that matter, does anybody sell the complete set of 11 CD-ROMs??



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