On Feb 28, 2009, at 3:21 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote:

> Ken Dail wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>> I use Scid quite a bit, on Mac OS X. One feature I use the
>> most is the  crosstable. It strikes me as somewhat silly
>> the date limitation for  game inclusion. I think the date
>> range should be at least user  selectable.
>
> Playing CC, eh? ;)
>
> I see your point, and my first glance at the code gives me
> the idea that it's already "broken" in the Tournament
> Finder. Actually, it is not really broken, one has to be
> careful here, it's just from the point of view of OTB chess,
> where an event does not last that long.
>
>> I'd personally prefer to turn it off. Currently if I'm
>> looking at a set of games that spans more than 6 months of
>> time, I  think the only solution is to copy all the games
>> to a temp database  and then mangle all the date tags.
>>
> Dropping the date limitation entirely might run into
> difficulties.  E.g. I've a base where you find:
>
>   Event "BCF Ch"
>   Site "Hastings ENG"
>   Date "1953.??.??"
>
> along with
>
>   Event "BCF Ch"
>   Site "Hastings ENG"
>   Date "1965.??.??"
>
> Surely, you'd not want to have those two in the same
> crosstable. (Similar for Linares, Dortmund, Corus...) A
> clever approach is needed here, I think. At least dropping
> the date limits entirely would most likely not work in
> general.

No not a good idea in general, but in my case, when I'm looking at a  
crosstable, I'm mostly working with games from a specific pgn file,  
rather than a huge db. It is my wish that all games in the pgn file be  
included in the crosstable.

> Probably, the most flexible solution would be a
> "cross table for filter games", to have the option not to
> select the games to consider by the tournament finder. And
> avoiding the additional two values to be selected by the
> user in the tournament finder.
>
> I'm not sure, however, if this is really the best way. Plus
> my first check told me that a solution to your problem is
> not entirely straight forward fixed. (Maybe I missed
> something here.)
>



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