Let me see if I can reproduce that 1807* bug, and, if so, I'll report the
steps to Fulvio.
Thanks for the recommendation for unrated players. I'm going to change all the
1300s I entered back to blanks.
- Original Message -
From: "Benoit St-Pierre"
To: "Scid List"
Sent: Tuesday,
Hello James,
Yes, I think you should leave the rating field empty if you don't know the
rating. You are point out what seems to be a terrible annoyance:
> my games database got corrupted when I started entering both USCF and ELO
ratings. What happened is that the W-Elo and B-Elo fields got myster
Thanks, Benoit. That's good advice about being cautious with using a
particular number such as 1300 for unrated players. I'm willing to just leave
that field blank (is that what you are recommending?) except that my games
database got corrupted when I started entering both USCF and ELO ratings.
James,
The only way I can think of right now to change at once all the ratings
from ELO to USCF would be:
- export your database in PGN
- open the PGN file with a text editor, and
- replace the text with a Search and Replace.
I don't think of a way to tweak the ELO files. Other can chime in here
You're right. I have since learned that the USCF rule is
Any idea how to do the maintenance tasks I need to do?
- Original Message -
From: "Chris Bannister"
To: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net
Sent: Tuesday, May 26, 2015 9:51:39 AM
Subject: Re: [Scid-users] Database Maintenance
On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 01:18:30PM +, James K. Williams wrote:
> 2. I want to change every 0 rating to 1300. (I used 0 to represent
> unrated, but 1300 is a more realistic initial rating for unrated
> players.)
I would have thought that 1000 is a more realistic figure.
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