From: Eric Cheymol <shogi <at> FREE <dot> FR>
Date: 14 jul 2003
Subject: GSDB games in psn format

Hello,

First good news for shogi today :

All games available in Matt Casters' Java Shogi Database
(http://www.ibridge.be/shogi/) are available in a single archive file.
The archive file is given in the zip format and in the tar.gz format.

http://echeymol.free.fr/matt/gsdb.20030714.psn.zip
http://echeymol.free.fr/matt/gsdb.20030714.psn.tar.gz

Those archives contain exactly the same files :

Amateur.psn  1004 games, all games between amateurs or amateur against
pro
Jozeki.psn     85 games, jozeki (30 & 40 first moves from Terao Manabu
and The Nakabisha Series)
Matt.psn        2 games, two Shikenbisha book test from Matt
Pros.psn     1130 games, all games between pros
Tsume.psn                some tsume in gsdb specific format

In all, 2221 games and several tsume. The games are in a psn format
generated by Matt.

Matt Casters and Thomas Majewski have done a really big job by entering
most of those games in the past years. Many games are commented : many
are commented in German by Thomas for the German Shogi Magazine, other
are commented by Reijer for his "The Week in Shukan Shogi" weekly
report.

 From the games available today in gsdb server, those games slightly
differ : I did a cleaning job about the names, firsnames, dates ... But
the moves remain the same. Gsdb games should be updated soon.

So you can replay more than 2000 games. Just in time for the next EC in
Sweden. I should take some time for studying them myself too :-))

Best Shogi wishes,

Eric

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