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Subject: Re: How many new public chess games are saved in database in a year?

Author: J.Dufek

Date: 04:28:35 06/24/03

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On June 23, 2003 at 18:34:20, Mark Young wrote:

>On June 23, 2003 at 14:56:11, Uri Blass wrote:
>
>>I am interested in the number of games in all level that are saved in database
>>that people can download.
>>
>>How many of them are human games and how many of them are computer games?
>>
>>Uri
>
>I have collected almost 5 million games from downloads. I am sure a good
>percentage of the games I have in my database are doubles, even with that I am
>sure over 4 million or more of the games are not doubles.
>
>Most of the games are human games and most are not of a GM class, as one would
>expect with that many games.
>
>Most of the computer games I have downloaded are from SSDF and this is less the
>40,000 if I remember correctly.
>
>I recently in the past few days started making a massive opening book with all
>my collected games. The book currently has 4.7 million games with 75 million
>positions. I am still adding games to the book which will reach over 5 million
>games, but progress is slow when adding games to that big a book.
>
>I have started testing this book to see how if fairs against the books that come
>with the various chess programs. So far it seems bigger is better.:)

Only question: How do you check doubles? and what format DB do you use?




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