Author: William Penn
Date: 05:17:43 03/05/05
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On March 04, 2005 at 15:40:36, David H. McClain wrote: >Is one any better than the other for finding duplicate games? I have found >SCID, while a very nice program, continually finds a few duplicate games, no >matter how they are sorted, until finally the search for duplicates is satisfied >that there are no more. Am I missing somehing with SCID? DHM With any software be sure to search for games with identical games scores, while disregarding all other data. In my experience these are largely duplicates. I don't know the percentage offhand but believe it is high, probably 90%+. When this fails (the game is not actually a duplicate), it is almost invariably a short GM draw by agreement, and those games doesn't interest most of us anyway. Maybe this works best as a last step, after you have already removed as many duplicates as possible with other methods, then you can inspect the hits individually to verify they're actually duplicates if the sample isn't too big. Note, this is especially true with CB8. It always finds a lot of duplicates this way which other settings don't find. I consider this a bug, i.e. the other settings don't work exactly right or this wouldn't happen!? I don't have any idea if this was fixed in CB9. WP
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