Author: John Robertson
Date: 21:40:45 06/23/02
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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
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