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Subject: Re: Dann Corbit (large CAP files) and minimal storage of positions

Author: Dann Corbit

Date: 11:50:17 05/20/02

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On May 19, 2002 at 11:25:57, Anthony wrote:

>First Dann I think this CAP announcement of your project seems very interesting!
> I noticed on your site you have some very large CAP files that have a
>designation tag with letters A, B, C and D??  What is the significance of these?

I think you are looking at PGN files with an ECO code of A, B, C, or D.

> I also remembered reading a post some time ago that someone had found a way of
>greatly reducing the storage size of positions but have not seen anything about
>it since??  Was it a farce or was there some substance to it.

Don't know.  We are still playing with the idea.  Les Fernandez has an
experiment with checkmates from CAP running right now.



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