Pascal,
Suppose you have a closed tournament. You have all the games, except one.
That one, you're not sure, or you're waiting for the score to come in. It's
sensible that you enter the header without providing the score : you're
waiting. Sometimes, it's empty because the game was forfeited, or that the
player died of a car accident. Whatever : I am choosing extreme examples to
illustrate the need to have metadata, not to say that it's how we should do
it regarding this very project.
If that's nonsense to you, imagine you have one game that finished in time
scramble and you put an "etc" at the end of the game. You finally get to
the final moves : a friend noted them. This is in fact the same process as
correcting a misspelled name, or a misclicked move : you change the game
score. This is "good enough".
Or is it ? We have the best practices for CVS when it comes to
programming. Do we have them when it comes to archiving ? That might not
be a great problem for practical chess. Not so for documentary pruposes,
would say historian like Edward Winter says, who regarding Tartakower vs
Przepiorka said [1] :
**
> This game provides yet another reminder that databases cannot be taken on
> trust, as the first moves are frequently given as 1 e4 e6.
>
We would need a CVS for sure. Without metadata about the work, we won't
have much : just imagine 100 programmers without a Tracking system.
[1]: http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4714
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