Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 10:25:09 09/24/98
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On September 24, 1998 at 12:56:01, Danniel Corbit wrote: >On September 24, 1998 at 08:05:59, Dave Gomboc wrote: >[snip] >>I've downloaded the a.cdb.gz through e.cdb.gz files. I am wondering about the >>specific contents: are they exactly what is found in ECO? Or are they crafty's >>wall book, split up into the separate ECO codes? Or some other games >>collection? >They are made from a much older version of CRAG [what I call A+B+C+D+E]. That >version did, indeed, contain all of WALL, and even ROCK, but it does not contain >all that the newest iteration of what CRAG does. It is also not filtered as >well and has a few other flaws. I found that the raw PGN files are downloaded >perhaps 100:1 over the CDB databases, so I stopped updating them. I also get >emails from people who download them but have no idea what they are and want me >to explain how to use them! It does take a full night to convert a big PGN book >into a CDB file on a PII 300. >[snip] So your recommendation to be would be: 1) blow these files away 2) download a.zip through e.zip (the pgn files that make up "crag"?) 3) make the cdb files myself 4) I could ftp the cdb files back to you if you like? How are games classified between openings? e.g. caro-kann panov-botwinnik attack games might turn into nimzo-indian positions. which book will these be under? Dave Gomboc
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