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Subject: Re: Grandmasters playing the Stonewall

Author: Angelo Ciavarella

Date: 13:05:43 03/04/03

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On March 04, 2003 at 14:51:17, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On March 04, 2003 at 12:22:16, Angelo Ciavarella wrote:
>
>>On February 28, 2003 at 09:59:00, Andrew Williams wrote:
>>
>>>On February 27, 2003 at 16:40:58, Angelo Ciavarella wrote:
>>>
>>>>Where can I find games by Grandmasters playing the Stonewall,especially when
>>>>black fianchettoes his king bishop?
>>>
>>>If you know the ECO number of the opening you're looking for, you might try Dann
>>>Corbit's ftp site. In the old days, you could go into the directories,
>>>a-openings, b-openings etc and find zipped files for each ECO code. I think the
>>>link is:
>>>
>>>ftp://cap.connx.com/
>>>
>>>You may have some problems, however; Dann's ftp server REQUIRES either passive
>>>or active mode (I can't remember which, but the other one doesn't work).
>>>
>>>Andrew
>>Thanks Andrew.I haven't had much luck opening the folders at his site.How do I
>>get the ECO codes?
>
>Normally, you would go to the directory a-openings, b-openings, ... e-openings.
>
>Stonewall is a bit scattered (variations from A92-A95 and D00, D30 and D45).  So
>I collected some.  You will have to filter for black fianchettoes yourself.
>
>ftp://cap.connx.com/chess-engines/new-approach/stonewall.pgn.bz2
Dann,I have trouble accessing this site.When I previously downloaded D00 and
tried opening it in Chessmaster 5500 as a pgn file, it told me it was an invalid
file.Is it possible my settings are wrong?
Angelo



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