Author: Robert Henry Durrett
Date: 05:28:04 06/24/02
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On June 24, 2002 at 00:40:45, John Robertson wrote: >On June 23, 2002 at 21:04:48, Robert Henry Durrett wrote: > >>On June 23, 2002 at 18:19:54, John Robertson wrote: >> >>>On June 23, 2002 at 17:14:47, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >>> >>>>On June 23, 2002 at 17:02:40, John Robertson wrote: >>>> >>>>>Do any of the chess database systems provide that feature? >>>>>Thanks, >>>>>JR >>>> >>>>I'm fairly sure SCID can do that, but I don't have it installed >>>>on this machine, so I can't give exact instructions. >>>> >>>>SCID is free, so you can try it out... >>>> >>>>-- >>>>GCP >>> >>>Thanks for replying. I have Scid, ChessPad, and ChessBase Light. Insofar as I've >>>been able to figure out to date, they don't do simple stats on a position just >>>by pressing a button (analogous to www.chesslab.com) nor for a filtered list of >>>games. If they do, then I need some specific instructions how to do it. >>> >>>I'm still almost a beginner with chess database systems. I know how to input >>>games and setup databases. But I'm still learning about what operations are >>>available to perform on a database. >>> >>>Scid will generate an "opening report" for a position which includes some >>>statistics, plus a lot of other unwanted stuff which I don't see how to exclude. >>>A negative is that it will only calculate the statistics for the 500 highest >>>rated games, if I understand correctly, but I want to generate stats for much >>>larger numbers of games (perhaps over 1,000,000+ games) while ignoring ratings. >>>And I haven't yet discovered where it will do stats for a list of filtered >>>games. >>> >>>JR >> >>It is true that Chessbase 8.0 is a "Sledgehammer" [which is very much worth the >>money if you have it] when what you are asking for is a "tackhammer." Sadly, >>there do not seem to be any tackhammners around. A pity. I prefer tackhammers >>too, when I'm in a hurry. >> >>I fell in love with the Chessbase Database software as soon as I got it. You >>will too, if you will take the time to explore all that it has to offer. >> >>If you use Chessbase Opening Report to produce statistics for a million games, >>it's going to take awhile. Remember: "Patience is a virtue." >> >>Incidentally, I am NOT a paid sales person for Chessbase products. >> >>Bob D. > >Yes, I'd prefer a tackhammer. I figured it out with the help of Mike S. (above), >but it's not as simple as I would prefer. I would still prefer a tackhammer. For >example, there should be a simple little utility that would parse a PGN file and >produce statistics for a given position, nothing more. I'm almost motivated to >learn one of the new IBM-compatible programming languages to write it myself, >but that would be a sledgehammer approach to a tackhammer problem!? :) >JR True enough. But learning to program has another advantage . . . It will hook you on computer chess. Bob D.
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