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Subject: Re: Where to find big pgn files?

Author: Robert Hyatt

Date: 12:05:32 09/10/99

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On September 10, 1999 at 13:31:08, Gregor Overney wrote:

>On September 10, 1999 at 13:03:04, Robert Hyatt wrote:
>
>>On September 10, 1999 at 04:50:57, blass uri wrote:
>>
>>>I am interested in big pgn files that I can download in the internet and include
>>>names of players and rating of them if they are humans.
>>>
>>>Uri
>>
>>
>>Go to my ftp machine, ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/common
>>
>>the biggest pgn file is in the 'enormous' directory, and contains 1.5
>>million games with full PGN headers and results.  There are other
>>directories, although going to them will get you lots of duplicates for
>>the games in enormous...
>
>I found a 7MB book.bin in this subdir. Is it good? Currently, I am using the
>book.bin that is roughly 3.2MB big (also from your web-site). Is this 7MB book
>generated with a.zip, b.zip, ..... e.zip that I can see in the 'enormous'
>subdir?
>
>Gregor


The book.bin in the enormous is _exactly_ the book.bin I use to play on ICC
and FICS daily.  It seems to work pretty well...

it was made from the enormous.pgn file like this:

book create enormous.pgn 60 5 50

Bob



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