Author: Swaminathan
Date: 02:40:17 10/07/05
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On October 07, 2005 at 03:56:25, Kunnar Klauks wrote: Hi Kunner, >Im using Scid and Linux. I have created my own large database with ~650 000 at >least master level games in Scid. I open my played games in FICS and then lock >large database tree. Now i can compare my opening moves to moves in large >database, and decide where i can improve my opening. If im out of opening tree i >switch on analysis engine, this way i can find out how i can improve middlegame >and endgame, find tactical mistakes etc. As analysis engine im using at the >moment Fruit 2.1, in old times i used Crafty. This way i have reached over 2000 >(recently 2027, hrank ~120) blitz rating in FICS, i have beaten many times fide >masters there who have over 2300 FIDE elo rating. Me does not have any elo >rating, and never had, i dont play in tournaments. Thanks for this interesting review,I'm new to SCID. I use chessmaster to prepare for openings,after much talks about openings from people here,I decided to download the SCID,are there any such opening software availabale for free by the way? >Another thing what has helped my game for sure is analysing GM games with GM >comments. Just analysing plain game without comments is too boring for me, >reading GM comments and lines and comparing them to engine lines is more fun and >i think more effective in terms of improving game. Unfortunately its hard to get >for free good GM games with good comments. In you search from google for example >"annotated pgn", you can find many, but most of them are garbage. Im not I didn't know a thing about googling for annotated PGN.But there are lots of annotated games in chessbase database. I googled it and this is the link to download the Zip file of annonated games,I don't know how good it is. http://www.endgame.nl/downloads.html >interested about only annotated games without comments, or games played buy >or/and commented by weak players. But i dont want to buy such stuff neither, i >want for free. Anyway, i have collected ~300 well commented GM games, from time >to time such stuff appears in internet. I keep those games in Scid format, but >can easily export to PGN. If anybody wants to exchange such data im very >interested, mail me to kunnar.klauks@gmail.com or send message in FICS to hober.
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