Author: Hermano Ecuadoriano
Date: 00:07:36 01/11/01
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On January 11, 2001 at 02:09:54, Pete Galati wrote: >On January 11, 2001 at 01:06:46, Derek wrote: > >>Has anyone purchased the Starbase 2.33 CD from Chessco.com? >>(http://www.chessco.com). It's reported to contain 2.33 million games, >>but it gives no indication of the quality of the games nor the >>percentage of duplicates. The price seems OK though. Any opinions? > >Paying for a database of games just always confused me. If you have an interest >in a particular player or event, you can probably download them for free. And >what posible use could you come up with for 2.33 million games anyhow? > >Quality? How could there _posibly_ be a reasonable percent of quality games in >a collection of that size? 98% of any given feild is a load of crap in my >opinion anyhow. > >Hey, I got no way to know not having seen the thing, but to me, they appear to >be selling quantity... > >Who knows, you might just love it. > >Pete Having a nice, neat, complete database is a major convenience, and costs almost nothing, compared to the labor you would put into trying to assemble your own. Which one is nicest, neatest, and most complete? Two years ago, when I looked into this, I thought it was this one: http://members.home.net/kneven/chess/databasing.html He has continued to build it since then. There is no junk in it.
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