Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 16:57:51 03/04/03
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On March 04, 2003 at 16:05:43, Angelo Ciavarella wrote: >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? The files are compressed with bzip2. Did you decompress with bzip2 or with powerarchiver?
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