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Subject: Re: Crafty Opening Book Size

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:51:17 02/10/03

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On February 10, 2003 at 14:44:14, Jeff White wrote:

>On February 10, 2003 at 14:32:31, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>
>>
>>yes, but it _greatly_ depends on the options you specify.  IE how many times a
>>move
>>must be played to avoid tossing it out as "rare".
>>
>>And when you build "enormous" you had better have 2-3 gigabytes of free space.
>>While
>>the building/sorting stuff is going on, the disk space requirement is very
>>large.
>
>I have a little over 2 gig left on the drive I want to use. I'm just going to
>use the standard book create myfile.pgn 60 5 50
>For a 97 meg file, do you think this will be enough? Thanks again.

I think that is plenty  It takes about 12 bytes per position for temp space.  A
game of
40 moves (80 half-moves or positions) needs about 1kb of disk space.  For a
rough
estimate...

>
>Regards,
>Jeff



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