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Subject: Re: enormous.pgn

Author: David Dahlem

Date: 17:48:07 12/22/03

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On December 22, 2003 at 18:39:26, Mike Byrne wrote:

>On December 22, 2003 at 18:33:28, macaroni wrote:
>
>>Hi, how many games does enormous.pgn have in it? I estimate about 1.2 million?
>>My slow pentium 3 crashes while opening it in chessbase....
>>cheers
>>Tor
>
>
>Try converting it first before opening it.
>
>I'm not sure if this old utility still works - but it's worth a shot.
>
>ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/CONV/cba3216.zip.  It converts
>pgn to cb (old format).

Why do you need a converter? Why not just create an empty cb database, and then
copy the games from enormous.pgn into this empty database. This works fine, i do
it all the time.

Regards
Dave



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