Re: [Scid-users] Relying on a Tournament File

2009-06-25 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Addendum : > This kind of file could also be of interest for an historical database of > chessgames. It would look like www.chess-results.com, but for > tournaments. > but for historical tournaments, of course. -- __

Re: [Scid-users] Relying on a Tournament File

2009-06-25 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, This morning, I dreamt exactly about that : You start out with what you have at hand: a game. > Then you identify the tournament and set up an authority > record for that one containing a name, probably the date it > took place and so on, enough information ot make it a real > individualize

Re: [Scid-users] Relying on a Tournament File

2009-06-25 Thread Alexander Wagner
Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! > It is. It is just a popular name anyway. VIAF lists 827 > persons of that name. And VIAF is only built for persons who > published some book or the like... > > > I did not know about VIAF. I don't wonder ;) > Great stuff ! I know. > What I mean is t

[Scid-users] Very long games

2009-06-25 Thread Pascal Georges
Hi, To come back to Scid's handling of very long games, here are my thoughts and questions : - on average a game takes 200-300 bytes (reference base with some annotated games) - current Scid's limit is 64kB for a game (this means 30 games can fit in a disk block), which with the usual size of a g