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Subject: Re: My tournament went lost in data nirvana ... :-(

Author: Frank Schneider

Date: 21:38:58 01/23/00

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On January 23, 2000 at 18:07:30, Andreas Schwartmann wrote:

>I've been asked why my "Winter Tournament" was taken from my web site:
>
>I tried to install LINUX this weekend and wanted to resize my hard disk
>partitions ... during that process "Partition Magic" crashed and I lost all my
>data on that partition. As it happened, tt was my programs and Chessbase
>partition, of course, so I lost all my Fritz installations and settings and
>databases. I have worked all day to reinstall everything from scratch. I could
>try to reconfigure the tournament settings, but this would take too much time
>and therefore I have decided to cancel this tourney and restart another one in a
>couple of days, as in the meantime many engines have been improved. I have
>Crafty 17.06, Comet B12, AnMon 5.05, Phalanx 22, Fritz 6a and Junior 6a, so I
>will start a new tourney. I am awaiting a bit more memory, which I will receive
>hopefully in a few days. Then my system will have 320 MB RAM and I can create a
>new tourney with 130 MB hash tables for each engine.
>
>I'm sorry I had to cancel my tourney, but the new one will be just as good!
>
>I'll keep you posted!
>Andreas
Hi Andreas,

sounds like a nightmare.....
Thanks for the info and good luck with the new tournament,

Frank



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