Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 17:26:06 11/19/05
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On November 19, 2005 at 18:39:25, Andreas Guettinger wrote: >On November 19, 2005 at 16:43:03, Sune Larsson wrote: >> >>Yes, I like TWIC - but all names cannot be corrected in Scid. Furthermore they >>have different names compared with CB. An example: a game from TWIC with Geller, >>Al - *might* be transformed in scid to Geller, Alexander - but CB wants Geller, >>Alexander P. So in this case you'll end up with two players in the playerbase >>instead of one. [Maybe a fictive example cause in my scid there is no Geller, A >>at all...] Since Partidas Gratis from Argentine just stopped in jan-05, maybe >>TWIC is the relatively best upgrade source right now. Don't know for sure. PG >>was excellent and presented CB quality - they had worked with names and tourneys >>and adjusted them to CB. >> >>/S > >Of course it's not a good solution to use Scid for name correction if you want >to have your games in Chessbase at the end. I thought CB might have a similar >function like Scid, but I didn't know, because CB make no software for my OS. >I was irritated by the naming scheme of the TWIC pgn collections, too. I don't >understand why they provide nice sets of games, but truncate the players names >in a ridiculous way. > >regards >Andy I agree with your opinion about TWIC. Of course Mark is doing a great job - and we wish him to continue. Just a thought - adjusting the names to CB-standard might not be appreciated by all people in the world... GM:s solve this problem by commenting some games for CB - then they get needed equipment in return - like yearly megabase, Fritz9 and CB Magazine. regards sune
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