>
> One could also think about offering a large reference DB.
> Some time ago chesslib.no offered a free 2*10^6 games subset
> of their main db, and they also released their final db to
> the public domain before the site went down. Today you can
> not get this DB from chesslib.no, but still I'd have the
> complete DB available here. I'd not pack such a thing into
> scid distribution of course but one could offer it as an
> additional ressource.
>
> Also a community project within the current scid framework
> to create such a DB is worth to consider. A start might be
> "complete TWIC" plus manual selection of major tournaments
> before TWIC started, or whatever. I don't know what the
> community here thinks about such a thing, but actually if
> there are some volunteers that says "ah, if I only could I'd
> support this project but I don't know a thing about
> programming" this would be a place to start. Besides,
> workload on such a project scales pretty well: if a
> tournament is not included in V1.0, so be it it can come in
> V1.01... Acutally, I think if there're some volunteers that
> have fun with such things in the end Scid-Mega would be
> better than CB-Mega ;) Especially taking care about
> doublette games, crosschecking that all tournaments are
> included completely and stuff like that makes this a bit
> more difficult than just adding TWIC every other week.
> Additionally, delivering a good predefined index to such a
> DB is really worth some work.
>
There already exists good free games collections, like ibase and Grand06,
but I can't find again their sites :-(
But I am sure searching a little bit, a good game DB can be set up from free
resources.
>
> A similar project would be to set up a really good opening
> book. E.g. Arena's main opening book is created by such an
> efford. Ok, there's one person in charge that works this
> out, but still it could be that in the community here some
> people are arround that say: ok, lets set such a thing up,
> I'm an expert in the Sicilian and you can my friend is a
> special fan of the Ruy and in our local club...
>
Maybe you refer to Harry Schnapp's work ? Indeed a good reference opening
book would be a good thing, even more if human tuned and checked.
>
> Though I think I'd not place such things within the main
> distribution but into some "additional ressources" part.
These could be hosted at SF or somewhere else.
Pascal
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