Cory Helfrich wrote:
Hello Cory!
>> 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.
> I would like to help with this.
> [...]
This would be great, indeed.
>> 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.
> Very true. This is more difficult than it sounds. Even identifying
> the ambiguous players names in twic can be challenging...
Exactly. ;) I'd suggest to base such a DB not on mass but on
quality.
>> Additionally, delivering a good predefined index to such a
>> DB is really worth some work.
> If you mean identifying the source of the games to include, this is a
> good idea.
Actually, right now I just add some
[Source "TWIC 654"]
lines to the header, and similar ones if they're from other
sources.
> Please let me know how you think we should start with this.
I for my person am currently just to busy to add another
project to my desk, sorry for that. But if you want to
please just feel free to start right away. From my
experience stuff gets going easier if someone just starts
doing something. I could provide some scripts of course to
automatically fetch TWIC or also my pgnaddtag that adds the
above mentioned header line to all games in a pgn file.
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