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Subject: Re: Can anyone recommend a small general purpose opening book?

Author: Peter Skinner

Date: 08:00:20 09/30/04

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On September 30, 2004 at 10:52:21, William Penn wrote:

>On September 30, 2004 at 08:09:47, Norm Pollock wrote:
>
>>On September 30, 2004 at 04:25:15, James Constance wrote:
>>
>>>Preferably in pgn so that I can import it into Shredder classic.
>>>
>>>Thanks
>>
>>I made up such a pgn book but I do not have a place to post it. It is too big
>>36M for e-mail. If anyone has a site that I can upload it to I would be glad to
>>do so.
>>
>>It uses only games from humans 2530+. I update it every 10 weeks using games
>>from TWIC. Draws 20 moves or less are deleted. Wins 30 moves or less are
>>deleted. Also deleted are blitz, blindfold, twins/duplicates and games with FEN.
>
>Is that 36MB zipped, or unzipped? Compressing a PGN file can reduce the size
>significantly. Or perhaps it could be broken into smaller chunks for reassembly
>after transmission/download.
>WP

I have just emailed Norm instructions on uploading the book to the Crafty
webspace to be shared with others.

I am more than willing to host such files.

Peter



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