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Subject: Re: Has Anybody got the Brainy.zip file from Dan Corbitt's site?

Author: Juan Pablo Naar C.

Date: 20:58:05 10/17/04

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On October 17, 2004 at 08:54:07, Roberto Waldteufel wrote:

>On October 16, 2004 at 23:21:59, Juan Pablo Naar C. wrote:
>
>>What's Dann Corbit's site? I can make that favor to you 'cause I have a
>>file-splitting program.
>
>Hi Juan,
>
>Thank you for your kind offer :o)
>
>Dan Corbitt maintains an FTP site with tons of useful chess data. In particular,
>he runs something called the Chess Analysis Project, which envolves a lot of
>people with fast computers and strong programs (mostly Crafty)analysing lots of
>openings very deeply. This has been going on for a long time now, and there is a
>substantial amount of data amassed from it. If you have not been there it is
>well worth checking out. The address is:-
>
>   ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/
>
>The specific file I am after is BRAINY.ZIP and is located at
>
>   ftp://cap.connx.com/pub/Public_CAP_Results/Brainy/BRAINY.ZIP
>
>I have found in the past that after splitting and resplicing a ZIP file it will
>not unzip properly any more, so you need to unzip the big BRAINY.ZIP file first,
>which will unpack a single file which should be called Brainy.epd or something
>similar. Split that file, then rezip each slice separately to produce several
>smaller ZIP files no bigger than 10 MB each, which is about the most I can
>download in one piece.
>
>All the best,
>
>Roberto

I'm trying to download it but my getright can't connect to the server.



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