Author: Harald Faber
Date: 06:11:34 06/26/02
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On June 26, 2002 at 06:08:02, Arild Fredriksen wrote: How comes that WinCommander shows differences in the .ctg files? >I'm the the one to apologize. > >Som facts: > >If you "compile" the source files, the Lunsen database, >from: http://www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/Lunsen.htm >you get the real Lunsen opening book. > >The ready build CB-tree that I publised _is not_ >the Lunsen opening book; the plain truth is that this >files are from ChessBase, sold a few years back as >ChessBase PowerBook 2000. No, doubt, a comparison >of the book files from Lunsen and the PowerBook 2000 >files from ChessBase show a 100% match. > >I am compering the files uploaded from the Netherlands by >Lunsen to my FTP-server in Norway, with the (original)files from >ChessBase. (Don't confuse the ChessBase 2000- with the >Chessbase2002 opening book). >Best regards >ChessliB >Arild Fredriksen > >On June 26, 2002 at 01:16:01, Harald Faber wrote: > >>Although the file sizes and in fact also the contents of the .ctb and .cto are >>identical, the comparison of the huge 553.553.920 byte Lunsen.ctg and >>Powerbook2000.ctg indeed shows several differences between Lunsen and Powerbook >>2000. Compared with WindowsCommander 5.0, File->compare by contents, binary. I >>have no idea how WC5 compares, but I assume that this result is correct. >>Although I also do not know the structure of the trees and how 2 of 3 files can >>have the same contents but the third does not, I feel the due to apologize here >>in public for calling the Lunsen book illegal, stolen powerbook 2000 from >>ChessBase.
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