Author: Gilles Garrigues
Date: 08:56:36 12/25/04
Every year I buy that big database from ChessBase and every year I find after a few minutes some annoying bugs / inconsistencies. This year I found for example several thousand games played between 1952 and 1969 (before the introduction of the ELO system) where one of the player HAS an ELO ranking ! Probably leftovers from another base with estimated ELO's. Also when you look at the "short games" (for example less than 5 moves) you will realize that many of them are game fragments (incomplete game scores)where it would have been better to give no move at all (just the final score in order to have complete tournament tables). Well next year maybe... ?
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