Hi! > Hello everybody! > > Regarding the discussion about scid having a default db included, maybe > a script/program to download games from the internet could be bundled > up. For example I have my own little C program using libcurl which can > get all TWIC issues from chesscenter.com <http://chesscenter.com>, > ending up with over 700K games. > I know this suggestion is a little different but it works. > > Bogdan > > > There is a python script in the directory scripts of Scid : twic2scid.py. > It seems to do what you wrote in C.
I could also offer some bash/perl combo that fetches a TWIC number and adds a Source-stanza to the header. > By the way I found back the ibase url : http://www.icofy.net/index.php?lc=2 Ah, now I know which you refered to. This DB however has some drawback: ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Which spelling must I consider if I look for a player? All special characters are converted into the English spelling, therefore you must enter e.g. "Mueller" and not "Müller". Why the database contains games and players, but no names of tournaments or teams? Our database shall allow you to prepare for a certain opponent or opening system, but it shall not generate special statistics of tournaments or teams. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Though the author thinks this makes sense I do not feel that removing this header info is very smart. They'd not hurt in any way but could come in handy on the other hand. Additionally, I did not find a way to get a diff. > It is pretty ok for me. Maybe a Scid DB conversion and putting the > result "somewhere" on internet could help users ? If I get it right it's already in scid's format. Though they refer to ChessDB. > I cannot personnaly host it because I wonder why the ISP > Free.fr did not already kicked me out, given the bandwidth > I use for Scid. Oh, it lives well enough on sourceforge. http://downloads.sourceforge.net/isschessoffice/IB107CDB.tar.bz2 or in PGN http://downloads.sourceforge.net/isschessoffice/IB107PGN.tar.bz2 Maybe a link on scids page would be in order for the time beeing. -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
