Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:27:44 01/18/05
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On January 17, 2005 at 10:23:02, adam wilks wrote:
>about a year ago i purchased the Ultimate games collection thinking it was
>grweat value for money.Yet, a few months later i read an article on the net that
>this cd included around 40% of duplicate games which is ridiculous considering
>theres around 2.8 million games on the cd. The cd says there is 0.5% duplicates,
>so can someone either please inform me of how to carry out duplicate game search
>in fritz as manual dont tell me or inform me how mnay games are actualy
>duplicates as i wanted to put them on my palm so i can go through some when im
>resting on my bed.
I don't think Fritz has a remove duplicates function. As to the Ultimate
collection, I recall the earlier editions to be absolute junk. Full of repeated
player names (such as 4-5 versions of Korchnoi), and thus repeated games, wrong
dates, wrong events, you name it. I honestly don't think there are 40%
duplicates, and agree it sounds like a gross exagerration, but nor is there
0.5%. I'd be surprised if the number wasn't above 10% though.
You might want to take a look at how much space these games take, because 2.8
million games in PGN format may easily take up to 1 GB of space. I honestly
don't know though, as none of my large bases are in PGN format.
Albert
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