Hello, When trying to maintain a huge database (something akin to a master game repository), I encounter an annoying problem. Doublechecking names easily lead to a nightmare : I have to choose some name of a player without knowing exactly who to pick. Szabo, for instance, seems to be a popular name for a chessplayer.
So I got this idea : why not use a filename of tournaments ? Ideally, this file would contain the list of all its players. Doublechecking names should get easier, then. Besides, once the historical work has been done, it would be independant of any database. Since collections of games are no real database (i.e. the instances are devoid of any rigid designator, a unique ID, say), we need to work around this limitation. Working outside the database seems to me the only way to go, if we want a historical record of actual games, with less and less data error. Of course, if one has not enough information about a game, that solution can't help. But I don't see any solution to the lack of information, except trying to build a tournament file that would be orthogonal to a file of chessplayers' names. That's just food for thought, of course. I thought you might like it, so here it is. I also thought it was a good idea to share. Have fun, B PS: I am on vacations until end of July, so I won't contribute to the debate, if there is one. There should : Alex being for, Pascal seeing technical problems and no real relevance, etc. ;-)
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