Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 04:48:01 11/04/03
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On November 04, 2003 at 07:32:32, Renze Steenhuisen wrote: >Maybe these games are put in deliberately? The quality of this particular DB is just not so good - though commercial it is. Parallell with the trade of games there might be some weirdnuts out there who think this is funny. Don't think these games are put there deliberately by the seller though. When there is no carefully worked through tournament/playerbase these things just happen. New games are flowing in and just added to the DB. As said - normal duplicatecheck doesn't find these games. But they get visible when you try to make a tournament complete. /S > >On November 04, 2003 at 07:21:18, Sune Larsson wrote: >>In my work with databases and older games, I've come across lots of strange and >>false games. These are to be found also in commercial DB:s. If these games >>automatically are used to make books for engines, the result can be both weird >>and bad. Below a small sample of games from a commercial DB of a rather good >>reputation. If you take some time and replay the games, you'll know what I >>mean... These games differ so much from the real ones, that normal dup-search >>just won't find them.
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