Author: Günther Simon
Date: 14:18:27 12/18/05
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On December 18, 2005 at 16:55:24, Dadi Jonsson wrote: >I have created around 1600 PGN-files from games found in CCC posts from 1997 >until now and turned them into attachments to the original posts. > >The total number of games in the PGN-files is probably close to 30.000. Only >games that were found at the end of a post were moved to an attachment. So, a >signature or even a single "Enjoy!" as the last line of a message would cause >that post to be skipped. The only exception was that I removed any quotes from >previous messages from the bottom of each post before further processing. > >The search for valid games was rather strict and games with even some of the >most common mistakes, or deviations from the PGN standard, were skipped. The >search started at the end of the message and stopped when no more games or an >invalid game was found. An attachment for a post was only created if more than >5valid games were found. > >The biggest number of games found in a single post was 333 and the size of that >PGN-file is over 1.5MB. The total size of all the PGN-files is over 70MB. > >All games were tested for valid moves and reformatted to conform better to the >PGN standard. Still, there are bound to be some errors. If errors are found or >the parsing of the messages is improved the process of generating the >attachments can be repeated. > >Here is an example of an attachment: > >http://hornid.com/cgi-bin/ccc/topic_show.pl?tid=64209 > >Users who log into the forum can view a list of all the attachments. The link to >the forum is: > >http://hornid.com/cgi-bin/ccc/forum.pl Thanks for all your free service! Regards, Guenther
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