Author: Komputer Korner
Date: 13:06:20 02/01/99
In the Fritz 5-32 bit program there is an interesting feature called ELO Management. There are still problems with this feature as to it's usefulness for adding tournaments to it that have new players, but there is an interesting sidelight to it. If you take your largest database and make 1 big ELO list from this, it will produce a list of players sorted by ELO rating and along side each player's name is the number of games that were calulated for that player. This has an interesting consequence. You can easily tell by looking at the list of certain wrong spellings that you may not have caught in the ordinary scheme of things. This may be because either the first letter was different or else the 2nd letter was different and was not close to the proper spelling in the alphabet. After eyeballing the list you will be able to catch many spellings this way that wouldn't be caught even by fuzzy spell checkers. I ran the ELO management on Knut Neven's base and caught some this way. Be careful not to press the gauging button or else the number of games beside each player will revert to 0. Leave the creation of the ELO list for an overnight process as it takes about 7 hours on a Pentium 166 with a 1.27 million games base. -- Komputer Korner
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