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Subject: Re: Tiger for Palm bigger opening books?

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 09:50:21 10/25/02

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On October 19, 2002 at 09:42:51, Christophe Theron wrote:

>On October 19, 2002 at 07:31:14, Alastair Scott wrote:
>
>>I find the existing one rather too small; it's out of book extremely early too
>>often (eg after 1.c4 e5 2.Nc3 Nf6 3.g3 ... !).
>>
>>Is there a method (no matter how clunky or awkward) of creating a book.prc from
>>a PGN file, for example? The Web site says '... you will be able in the future
>>to download updated opening books from www.chesstiger.com and to install them on
>>your Palm without the need to reinstall the entire program' but, so far, nothing
>>has appeared.
>>
>>Alastair
>
>
>
>You cannot create opening books at this time.
>
>There is also the problem that in the current version the opening book size is
>limited to 64Kb, due to some limitation in PalmOS.


I have several Palm apps that can get at data bigger than 64k (e.g., DOC
readers).  How do they manage to do that?




>
>I'm working to bypass this limitation. So in the future Chess Tiger for Palm
>will be able to use unlimited size opening books. Probably in the next version
>but I cannot guarantee it.
>
>One thing this is certain is that the next version (Chess Tiger 15.0 for Palm)
>will allow you to use hash tables of unlimited size (actually up to 12Mb, vs
>48Kb in the current version). This is already working.
>
>
>
>    Christophe



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