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

Author: Dave Gomboc

Date: 07:39:49 06/16/98

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On June 16, 1998 at 10:17:24, Peter Herttrich wrote:

>On June 15, 1998 at 09:48:16, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>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.
>>
>>:)
>
>uummmmmmmmpffff....
>
>y're right. my last experiments nearly filled my new 2Gig HD.
>and the source was down in my local-dir.
>damned, someone there who spend me a 9Gig HD ? :-)
>
>But anyway, do you see a chance to build books without this
>amount of hd-room?
>Because i plan after the newwall.pgn (projectname rock:) )
>the 1Gig pgn, (projectname mountain).

Disk space is meant to be used!

Keep it up, great work :-)

Dave Gomboc


>no no no, don't kill me.
>Just kidding. But the rock will come.
>
>
>Cheerio
>Peter



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