Hi,
2008/6/22 Benoit St-Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello,
>
> A few months ago was discussed the idea to include a default database.
> I was juggling about many ideas, nothing convincing : Morphy's games,
> Zurich 1953, the example database from [Scid's tutorial] [1], etc.
>
> But now I think something came up that seems very interesting : latest
> Edward Winter's [Chess Explorations][2] are about the best games of
> the greatest, according to themselves. I think this little collection
> of about 40 games is very interesting to have for its own sake.
>
> I know, I know, they come from the Dark Side. Still, sometimes the
> Dark Force can be put to good use. The games in PGN can be downloaded
> [there][3] :
>
> So, any take on this matter ?
>
To provide a simple database as sample is a good idea, and Zurich 53 is
certainly a good candidate. I'd prefer not take stuff directly from
Chessbase, because even if the resource is copyright free (I did not check),
I prefer to let their marketing stuff aside. Also I don't believe Chessbase
is the "dark side" of chess, because their products are good and they have a
great professional approach in making chess more popular (even if their
marketing is cleverly present everywhere), but I'd like to keep things
separated.
Pascal
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