"Do not try to watch all of it at once," I wrote at the time. In the en I had a total of one and a quarter hours of multimedia on the ChessBase Magazine 58 CD.
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I always tried to include at least one introductory sequence in full size. I used the smaller format only in cases where the focus is on the spoken word. The former was sometimes a problem on slower computers or CD drives at the time, the latter would run on practically any system without any dropouts or jitter. It also reduced the transfer rate from the CD from about 360 kB per second (for full size) to 110 kB per second. The images were smaller but at the same time quite sharp. The alternate format was 132 x 99 pixels, which got me about three times more per megabyte of storage space. I made extensive use of this format in my report, but in some cases I reduced the size in order to be able to include longer sequences. Our normal video format consisted of frames that were 320 x 240 pixels in size. Garry in animated discourse, telling us about key positions in a game – you really had to see that in video. But there were also parts where the picture was useful or even essential. I made a number of such files for the report, some overlaid with a still picture of the person talking. Naturally I could supply a lot of the spoken commentary in the form of audio files, where you could get about 45 seconds to the megabyte (in good stereo quality). Much of the material was of documentary interest, and it would have been a shame to cut it down drastically for lack of space. This meant that I would be able to fit just about 30 minutes of multimedia on the disk. Having decided to go for high quality I found myself getting a little less than three seconds of video per megabyte.
The standard data CD was identical in size to the DVDs we use today, but could only hold 700 MB of information. Later it was adapted for general data (CD-ROM). How do you condense a reasonable amount of the video footage onto one CBM CD? For many top players who were not born at the time, let me explain: the "Compact Disc" was a digital optical data format that was originally developed to store and play only sound files (CD-DA). ChessBase Magazine at 320 x 240 pixelsįor my report on ChessBase Magazine there was a problem. Before I tell you about the first encounter, and show you video thereof, let me explain the technical situation at the time. One of them became a long-term friend who turns fifty today (tempus fugit!).
It included footage of the many interesting personalities I met. During that time I wrote daily reports, both for "Club Kasparov", which was part of the IBM website, and our own I returned home with over six hours of video material, which I used to produce a multimedia report for ChessBase Magazine Vol. I was part of the Kasparov team and spent over two weeks in Manhattan. It was one of the most spectacular chess events in history, the revenge match between Garry Kasparov and the IBM super-computer Deep Blue, played out in New York at the beginning of May 1997. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > The ultimate chess experience every day, Pla圜 welcomes 20,000 chess players from all around the world – from beginner to grandmaster.Memorize it easily move by move by playing against the variation trainer. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Learn openings the right way! Build and maintain your repertoire.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Real Fun against a Chess Program! Play, analyze and train online against Fritz.Top authors like Daniel King, Lawrence Trent and Rustam Kasimdzhanov Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Thousands of hours of high class video training.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > Sac, sac, mate! Solve tactical positions of your playing strength.Store your games, training material and opening repertoire in the cloud. Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > My Games – Access your games from everywhere.Still no ChessBase Account? learn more > 8 million games online! Updated weekly, our definitive database has all the latest games.
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