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Subject: Re: SAN problem with Crafty's wall.pgn book

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 06:48:16 06/15/98

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On June 15, 1998 at 03:46:44, Peter Herttrich wrote:

>On June 15, 1998 at 01:47:52, Steven J. Edwards wrote:
>
>>Fellow Programmers:
>>
>>In working with Crafty's opening book PGN file wall.pgn, I noticed an
>>error in SAN in one of the games.  (There may be more than one; this is
>>the first.)  It shows up at line 3,864,317 in column 47; it is a pawn
>>capture "exf1" but has no promotion indication.
>>
>>Have other PGN readers choked on this?  If not, then they should have.
>>It is incorrect to assume a promotion to a queen.
>>
>>Anyway, having nearly four million lines of good PGN before the first
>>problem is still pretty good.
>>
>>-- Steven (sje@mv.mv.
>
>Thanks, costs me some hours, to clean and throw out the doubles.
>If i have more time I will go for this problem, but for CRAFTY
>it's no problem to build the book.
>
>The newwall.pgn will be out in some weeks. It's more then
>twice the wall.pgn.
>
>Cheerio
>Peter


I suppose that if you are going to continue this insane behavior, I'm
going to have to design a new way to build the book.  Doubling the file
will mean someone needs way over 2 gigs free at present.  That is just
about unmanagable.

:)



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