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Subject: Re: Quality of SSDF pgn database

Author: Tony Hedlund

Date: 02:54:17 12/27/01

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On December 26, 2001 at 11:20:23, Johan Havegheer wrote:

>On December 26, 2001 at 09:11:48, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>Recently I have downloaded the SSDF pgn-list including more than 12,000 games.
>>It is however a pity that this database is of a very inferior qualitiy. For
>>example, Fritz 3.0 is given as:
>>
>>- Fritz3
>>- Fritz3.0
>>- Fritz 3
>>- Fritz 3.0
>>- F3
>>
>>with sometimes indication of CPU and so on.
>>
>>Another bad example refers to matches of M Chess Pro vs Hiarcs 5.0
>>
>>M [white player] - -Chess Hiarcs5 [black player]
>>
>>and M Chess is given as 'MCP' / M-Chess / MChessPro and some further variations.
>>I could give a lot of further examples. Is nobody of SSDF ready to create a high
>>qualitiy database? People all over the world would appreciate that.

I think that's an exaggeration. Nobody have complaint before. Your examples is
old results, probably before I made it public. Our newer results is more
unified.

>Yes, Kurt you are wright.
>I've spent many many hours to make the database a little bit better.

I don't have many many hours to spend on this.

>I've converted the pgn-thing to .CBH and have unified the names. I'v also
>deleted the poor(and double) games in it and i think my database is about 11.000
>pure games now.

As we of cource count the poor(?) and double games I can't delete them.

>I regurly update my database with the new.pgn files.

Good for you.

Best wishes
   Tony

>Best regards
>Johan
>
>>
>>Kind regards
>>Kurt



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