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Subject: Re: BigBase 2005 : needs some polishing !

Author: martin fierz

Date: 23:30:55 12/25/04

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On December 25, 2004 at 11:56:36, Gilles Garrigues wrote:

>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... ?

the thing which annoyed me most about mega 2004 was that it mixed internet blitz
games with regular games, i.e. there were games with elo 3000 in there taken
from ICC / fritz server. if you did a search for a position with an elo
threshold you got all this crap and you couldn't remove it in any way. i hope
this is fixed in CB9 / mega 2005!

cheers
  martin



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