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Subject: Re: How to use the CAP data.

Author: Will Singleton

Date: 23:05:50 01/05/99

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On January 05, 1999 at 22:22:37, Dann Corbit wrote:

>On January 05, 1999 at 22:01:26, Matthew Herman wrote:
>
>>How exactly are we supposed to use this?
>>Is it sorted by eco code? I have the 4000 or so positins in a database now but
>>wondering what to do with it.
>If you just want to look at the positions and see the suggested moves, you can
>try Manfred Rosenboom's excellent EPD viewers:
>http://www.rebel.nl/epd2diag.htm
>
>If you want to use the data, you could (for instance) use the data as a simple
>opening book.  Do a lookup based on the EPD string and return the ce value and
>pv, for instance.
>

Dann,

Great job on this stuff, and I look forward to the future results.  I download
the primary data, and I'm going to use it initially to supplement my book.  That
is, when I can select from several alternatives, I'll use this to weed out bad
choices.  Also, when out of book (mine is rather thin), I'll switch over to
yours, and also make use of the pv (stuff it into the hash table).

However, I don't know if the ce is valid for the entire pv, or loses validity at
the end.  What do you think?

Will



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