Author: Dann Corbit
Date: 13:31:16 03/01/00
Many of you have already been collecting from my PGN collection at: ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/a-openings/ ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/b-openings/ ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/c-openings/ ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/d-openings/ ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/e-openings/ for quite some time. Let's call that collection Crapbase 1.0. It never had a name, but I think that one is as good as any. Since the games are gathered from public sources, the headers are frequently misspelled, and they have many other oddities like that. That collection contained a measly 1.3 million games. The new collection contains 2.3 million. The games are all reliable PGN and have passed through several different PGN reading utilities to ensure that the contents are readable and accurate. I certainly would not recommend merging this stuff in with a good commercial collection. But for those rare games you have been missing, or to see what people or machines might do for a particular opening, you might have a look-see. Mabye you are a poor college student and can't pay the cost of a real chess database like Chess Assistant or the like. Well, at least you can get a *large* game collection for nothing. (Surely, size is its best attribute). Also found at my ftp site are chess playing programs, chess position solver programs, CAP data, and many other interesting chess artifacts. Special thanks to: Derek Adair, Peter Herttrich, and especially Michel Langeveld for helping to to collect the world's largest (and possibly crapiest) PGN collection. But it's better than a sharp stick in the eye. I am also asking for something back. But that something would be fun if you would like to participate. Of course, you can still get all the stuff at my FTP site for free, but it would be *nice* if you would participate. I am organizing a large Winboard tournament. The games are farmed out in sets of 4. We are going to test about 50 Winboard engines with a very large round-robin tournament. Anyone who wants to can help. If you have two machines, you can play that way, or you can use FICS or ICC to pair against an opponent (as you choose). You can learn more about the tournament by going here: http://f11.parsimony.net/forum16635/ And reading the banter about the "Battle of the Crowns" tournament. It won't start until April 1st, and I would appreciate any volunteers and/or input, suggestions, etc. The games will be slow time control (probably game in one hour) so it would be a four hour commitment. Of course, since the games will be playing using Winboard, you won't really have to do anything except send in the PGN score when a game completes. -- C-FAQ: http://www.eskimo.com/~scs/C-faq/top.html "The C-FAQ Book" ISBN 0-201-84519-9 C.A.P. Newsgroup http://www.dejanews.com/~c_a_p C.A.P. FAQ: ftp://38.168.214.175/pub/Chess%20Analysis%20Project%20FAQ.htm
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