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Subject: Re: Crafty Opening Book Size

Author: Jeff White

Date: 20:47:35 02/10/03

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>>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

Thanks for the info. I was fooling around with a 97 meg file and realized I had
a little more room than I thought. I'm going to try something a wee bit bigger.
Thanks again for the help.

Regards,
Jeff




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