Author: Albert Silver
Date: 06:39:01 01/15/99
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On January 14, 1999 at 19:37:50, Mark wrote:
>Good Day Everyone,
>
>I'm drooling at the prospect of purchasing the Ultimate Game Collection III.
>This is my first chess database purchase, and I was wondering about the quality
>of the games.
>
>Have most of the games in this database been played by Grandmasters of 2500+
>calibur? Or are there a significant number of games played by weak players (who
>will be able to beat me with very little ceremony anyway) in the 2200-2499
>range?
>
There are a lot of games by weaker players as well (I was NOT enthused to see
two games of mine played prior to my first rating of 1580 against an opposition
of 1690 and 2005 respectively), and a number of header problems.
I don't know what database program you are using, but Chessbase just released a
1.1 million game database with complete tournaments, headers, player's names,
etc... for DM99 (for an additional DM399 you can get it with 34,000 GM commented
games as well). The new Chess Assistant 4 comes with a 1 million game database
which is of top notch quality as well. Quality makes an ENORMOUS difference,
believe me.
>Finally, a question for chessplayers who use databases to construct their
>opening repetoire. Do you often decide against adopting a particular line
>because that line shows poor results based on a database search?
No. The reason is simply that statistics cannot be relied on. Suppose a line was
played victoriously with White 99 times but in fatal game 100 Black refuted the
whole business. The line is no longer playable yet statistically it will show
99% in White's favour.
Albert Silver
>
>That's it!
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