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Subject: Re: Making a book out of the Megadatabase

Author: Joshua Lee

Date: 14:39:39 07/11/02

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On July 10, 2002 at 18:44:45, Peter Ackermann wrote:

>Hi Joshua!
>
>I also did that but the mega-book is not good for using it as an opening book. I
>find it just very useful to find out quickly if I have games with a certain
>position in this big base but not for using it in eng-eng-matches. There are
>many games in the base which were played by players with a very low (or
>no)rating.
>My suggestion: Add ELO-rating to the games played up to 1970 and then create an
>opening book with all games played with both players having >=2200. This will
>give you a big book (>800000 games included) but you have at least a minimum of
>confidence that there is not too much nonsense in it.... Never the less
>automatic created books will always be inferior to tuned books.
>
>Regards!
>
>Peter


This thing has been going for well over 24Hours and the temp tree is over 3Gig
I think i would be better off getting an openings cd!



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