Author: James T. Walker
Date: 05:18:58 12/26/04
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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... ? Gee Whizz! Bugs in ChessBase products? I never heard of such a thing. Must be operator errror or something.
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