Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 12:19:24 12/15/02
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On December 15, 2002 at 14:22:15, Hardi Baur wrote: >On December 15, 2002 at 12:31:19, Sune Larsson wrote: > >>On December 15, 2002 at 12:11:27, Hardi Baur wrote: >> >>>Where did you find this "2.8 million game" database? >>> >>>I just know a database with 500k games at http://scid.sourceforge.net/base.html >> >> >> http://www.uib.no/people/pfvaf/chesslib/ >> >> and as all those big db:s out there, of >> shifting quality, I presume. Have you seen >> a couple of pesky doubles, then you know what >> I mean... > >Thanks for the link. Yes you're right there will be a number of doubles but scid >has really nice functions to filter it. > >Does anybody know when the next version of scid will be available and what are >the future plans of this great software? > >By the way: thanks Shane Hudson for it, it is in use! :-) Yup, Scid is a great software. I like it a lot. But with pesky doubles I mean them false, phony, wrong games that cannot be detected by Scid, CB or CA. They are bound to be there if you collect games from different sources. As I'm interested in historical games I have spent "some" time ;-) during the last year, trying to correct the oldest part of Neven's db - 1600-1969, divided into 3 parts. After the basics like name corrections, running the games through Scid, CB and CA in the hunt for doubles and tourney corrections - the pesky doubles remained. Many are found if you look at the tourneys - f.e. Buenos Aires 1945 should contain 78 games. But if you instead find 86 games with 6 "double pairings" seen in the crosstable?! Not very nice... A closer look revealed 8 phony, totally wrong games. This work has given me much greater respect for quality db:s, like the CB Big/Mega. /s
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