Author: Angelo Ciavarella
Date: 08:33:18 03/05/03
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On March 04, 2003 at 19:57:51, Dann Corbit wrote: >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? Dann, I was unable to open your site.I am using IE 5.5 with default settings, so maybe I have to modify them.However, I was able to find what I need at Chessgames.com.Thanks for your help.Angelo
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