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

Author: Les Fernandez

Date: 20:10:46 05/20/02

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On May 20, 2002 at 15:49:50, Anthony wrote:

>On May 20, 2002 at 14:50:17, Dann Corbit wrote:
>
>>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.

Anthony I think the files you are talking about are a special set of files that
were epd positions that were sent through a special utility program I developed
called the Permutator.  What it does is using symmetry on a position and
generating 3 additional positions whice were tagged with the letters A, B, C abd
D.  I hope this is what you are referring to.
>
>No I am familiar with those but I am referring to the epd's that have
>as part of the string a serial number and then a dot and then a 1, 2, 3 or 4
>connected to it.  ie 101.a  something like that.  Someone had sent me some
>positions like that a little while ago??
>
>>
>>> 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.
>
>
>What kind of experiment is being run on these checkmates??
>
>
>Regards



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