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Subject: Re: Books preparations. Some details?

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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