Author: Randall Shane
Date: 08:03:00 10/14/05
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On October 14, 2005 at 00:55:39, Dann Corbit wrote: >On October 14, 2005 at 00:04:15, chandler yergin wrote: > >>On October 13, 2005 at 23:51:13, chandler yergin wrote: >> >>>When you open the data base of over 1,000,000 games and 82,000 players >>>and click on players, it automatically lists them in alphbetical order >>>with the number of games for that player and lists the games chronolgically. >>>What you do with them is up to you! >> >>It has immediately compiled the information.. by player >>just click on the name to see the number of games and the games, dates etc. > >ChessBase can be used to do what the OP requested, but it would take literally >weeks of work. > >Wouldn't it be nice to have something that would do the whole job with the click >of a button? > >That is what the OP was asking for. > >As an illustration: >Someone asks, "Can I dig a canal across Panama?" >Someone response, "Here's a teaspoon. Have fun." > >Of course, you could do it. But it would take a long, long, long time. > >Similarly, to split the entire database apart using ChessBase into its >individual files split apart by author is like digging a canal with a teaspoon. > >You seem to be arguing about something, but I'm not really sure what it is. I'm not really sure what his issue is either. He seems to personally identify with Chessbase 9.0, and any suggestion that it's not perfect for every imaginable task gets him riled up.
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