Author: Bruce Moreland
Date: 09:22:28 06/07/99
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On June 07, 1999 at 03:16:15, Howard Exner wrote: >[Event "ICC 30 0 u"] >[Site "Internet Chess Club"] >[Date "1999.03.27"] >[Round "?"] >[White "Ferret"] >[Black "Wilder"] >[Result "1-0"] >[WhiteElo "2622"] >[BlackElo "2110"] >[ECO "B63"] > >Here again the ELO tags are confusing. Certainly Wilder is not rated 2110 ELO. >I'm guessing that the Ferret rating was its current ICC rating. > >From this example however crucial information is missing. Machine used and >speed? Time control? Hash table size (maybe not so crucial)? So the above tag >probably should show something like [White "Ferret Alpha XYZ] and in the "Event" >tag have the time control included. That's the PGN header as it comes from ICC. I didn't edit it. ICC doesn't know anything about my hardware configuration, other than what I list in the account's notes, so it wouldn't fill that in. >For many of us CCC regulars we will know the time control or that you use an >Alpha computer but down the road this info will be forgotten or lost. So my >wish is that some kind of computer game standard is adopted using the already >present PGN protcol. Perhaps it could be described on the CCC Web pages as a >reference to new posters. It was actually a quad Xeon. >>Meanwhile, I would think that kludging the SSDF ratings into there is probably >>fine. >> >>It probably makes sense to force all of the software/hardware/settings data into >>the name field, if possible, since 1) that is really what determines who the >>"player" is, and 2) anything else would cause mass insanity. > >I was thinking that would be the best place also. What about where to include >the time control? Or the use of two vs one computer for home matches ? There is a time control tag. ICC doesn't use it, apparently. bruce
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