Hi!

Till now I was not aware that Scid can handle different
rating systems simultaneously, that is, that it can store
Elo values along with DWZ or ICCF ratings. This is a very
nice feature, and I just adopted the CC code to allow to
choose the rating system on per server basis and store it
accordingly within the internal database. (Usually, the Xfcc
server returns a valid rating for each opponent, but of
course the rating is given for the servers internal rating
system.)

Now, I wondered if I could use those different ratings also
from within the spell checker, as I'm working on a
conversion tool from the ICCF database to Scid. For the
ICCF-ratings file, however, It would be sensible to add
%ICCF-lines here, and not %Elo lines. But unfortunately,
this does not seem to work, I get an error that there are no
Elo-lines available in my spellchecking file. :(

Would it require much work to add the handling of the other
ratings systems also to the spell checker? IMHO it would
make quite some sense, and the other functions of Scid seem
to be well aware of other rating systems. At least the
rating graph works nicely if I add the numbers to other
fields than Elo.

The only other way I currently know to add ratings from a
suitable file to an existing database without ratings would
be, to name the lines %Elo in my ratings file, get WhiteElo
and BlackElo added to every game via Scids spell checker.
Then I could export it to PGN, run a Search/Replace in the
header and re-import the base. This is kind of ugly, I
admit.

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