On 02/23/11 21:31, Mark Morss wrote: Hi!
> Thanks for that suggestion. I must say, though, that if Scid has this > number handy, it should be an option to have it written out at export > time. That's a whole lot less work for the user than the procedure you > suggest. I understand that this may be a rather specialized need. If you use the spell checker with one of Franz excellent ratings files Scid does actually a bit more than estimating the ratings. It really looks them up in the ratings file compares to the time frame and name and adds the rating that was published by FIDE for this very player at that time. If and only if, this comparison returns only one result. This still has some issues with ambiguous names (you can't individualise a person by her name only and you don't have better data in the usual PGN headers; most of the time you don't even have the full correct name :S) So in a way Scid tries here to avoid an automatism that might fail very well. Consider one of your junior players in your local Club which happens to be named "Kasparov, Garry". Spell checking your last Club turnament will rate your junior player 2812 Elo. In that way you should definitely do this only with some sort of supervision. Even if you take Scids estimated value to be written to the exported game, this might not be correct at all. E.g. if you have two (several) players in your base that have the same name and play at different levels the estimated value will be wrong. However, if you write out the ELO to the games headers this suggests that these are real values, ie. you know that they belong to the person that played this game. That's the main reason why this is a bit more complex here and not done automatically. Given the above problems, the librarian in me tells me that this is actually wise to do it that way. cu Alexander ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Free Software Download: Index, Search & Analyze Logs and other IT data in Real-Time with Splunk. Collect, index and harness all the fast moving IT data generated by your applications, servers and devices whether physical, virtual or in the cloud. Deliver compliance at lower cost and gain new business insights. http://p.sf.net/sfu/splunk-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
