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.) > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Open Source Business Conference (OSBC), March 24-25, 2009, San Francisco, CA -OSBC tackles the biggest issue in open source: Open Sourcing the Enterprise -Strategies to boost innovation and cut costs with open source participation -Receive a $600 discount off the registration fee with the source code: SFAD http://p.sf.net/sfu/XcvMzF8H _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
