On 02/23/2011 05:43 PM, Mark Morss wrote:

Hi,

> When I export a file of PGN games, I discover if WhiteElo and/or
> BlackElo appear within parentheses in the game list, they are not
> supplied at all in the exported PGN tags.  I also discover, when I
> browse one of these games in Scid, again this info is not shown.
> Further when I load one of these games, the given Elo info is shown in
> red and starred.
>
> I looked in the help facility and couldn't find anything about this.  I
> assume that parenthesized Elos are Scid's guess of some player's Elo at
> the time of the game, probably based on a player file and an undated Elo
> there.  But I should have the option of including this estimated Elo in
> my exports to pgn.  Why is it considered important enough to show in the
> game list and not important enough to export to pgn?

A game export does a game export. And your guess is right: If the game 
list shows the rating in parentheses, actual rating data are missing in 
the game, and they are somehow extrapolated from rated games by the same 
player.

> I have an application for game info which rejects games with missing
> Elos.  So the effect, for example, is that Klocker - Sveshnikov,
> Cesenatico 2010 will be excluded from my application, not withstanding
> that the one is White is rated over 2200 and Black is a GM!  Copying
> this kind of info by hand is no option, since I am processing many
> thousands of games with a PHP script.  There should be an easy way to
> export this info from Scid.

You can rate games using the "add elo ratings feature" that is part of 
the spell checker.

1) Get an ssp file that contains rating data from the scid website (that 
is, the big one)
2) Load this ssp file from the options menu
3) First do a playername spell check, as rating corrections are only 
applied for exactly matching names.
4) Next add the elo ratings

Cheers,
Joost.

> Best to all,
>
> Mark F. Morss NM
>
>
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