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

Author: Alessandro Scotti

Date: 16:16:30 09/30/04

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On September 30, 2004 at 14:40:17, Norm Pollock wrote:

>I'm in the processing of sending you my pgn file (11M zipped) via dial-up. There
>are about 49K games in the book. It is named normbk00.pgn.  I recommend that
>users use a setting of 6+ occurrences when creating books for
>engines/interfaces. Anything less than 6 runs a serious risk of using opening
>moves that are speculative.
>
>I will send you an update about every 3 months. In which case I will increment
>the last 2 digits on the file name. The updates will reflect additional games
>that were recently played and reported in TWIC or elsewhere.

Great work and I'm very interesting in such a collection... please don't forget
to post the link when you're done!



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