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Subject: Re: ChessMaster 6000 > Size of Opening Book?

Author: Terry Ripple

Date: 07:22:24 06/13/99

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On June 13, 1999 at 08:30:58, Marc Plum wrote:

>I got an Email, apparently from you, on my first reply to this post.  However,
>when I tried to respond by Email, my messages got returned, saying that your
>address had fatal errors.  This happened with both the Email address given for
>you on CCC and the one in your Email message.  The problem may be at my end, but
>it is easier just to reply here.
>
>You noted that the size of the opening book file in CM6000 is about 79 kB,
>whereas I had said 3.34 MB.  That is true, but what you apparently missed is
>that all the file sizes that I gave were in the Fritz CTG format.  That is, I
>used a function of the Fritz program to convert the CM book from its original
>format (.obk) to a Fritz opening tree (.ctg).  In this format the opening book
>was much larger than the original.
>
>It was necessary to have all the opening books in the same format before
>comparing the size, otherwise it would be comparing apples and oranges.  As I
>noted in my original reply, the Chessmaster book was much smaller than the
>others I looked at.  The Nimzo book was about 63½ times larger and so on.
>
>BTW, I don't actually use the CM6000 book with Fritz or Nimzo.  I just converted
>it to test this function.  Having done that, I was interested to note how much
>smaller it was.
>
>I hope this clears things up.
>
>Marc
>
>On June 11, 1999 at 16:33:13, Terry Ripple wrote:
>
>>I was wondering how many opening moves are in the CM book compared to Hiarcs-
>>7.32 Opening Book of 350,000 moves?
>>
>>
>>Is it correct to say that CM 6000 has a Wide but Shallow Opening Book?
>>
>>
>>Thankyou in advance for any information about this!
>>Terry R.

  Hi Marc,
Sorry about that, but i didn`t know that i was having a problem with email!
I do know that my email address is now the wrong one listed on ICD as i have a
new one! I need to change it with the people running this.

  Thankyou for your reply,
      Terry



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