Author: Sandro Necchi
Date: 12:16:27 05/05/02
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On May 05, 2002 at 13:47:40, Steve Maughan wrote: >Sandro, > >>So, now consider that in my book there are more than 150.000 variations and >>that they have all been selected checking them sometimes several times as >>theory develops every day one can understand what a work has been done. This is >>totally different than just making a database from available games. > >It's hard to say what I want to say without sounding critical, which I am not - >so here goes. > >How do you hand check 150,000 variations? You say you have been doing this for >24 years and 1000 hours per year that 24,000 hours. Can I take it that you >average six variations per hour!!! Normally I am faster than that. This would seem like a huge amount of work >-which it undoubtedly is but I guess I assumed that you'd start from a base of >PGN generated line. No, when I started there were no PGN lines, but only books. Is it really all hand checked? How many positions does >this correspond to? about 1.700.000 Of course in some positions one can spend some seconds while on others sometimes a long time. > >Regards, > >Steve Regards Sandro
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