Cory Helfrich wrote:
Hi!
>> Exactly. ;) I'd suggest to base such a DB not on mass but on
>> quality.
> Agreed. We should decide how we will treat things like ambiguous
> player names.
Well, the names should be normalised to scids usual
spellchecking/rating file provided by Franz, I'd suggest.
Woops!
Wrongly sent to Pascal :
I like both ideas :
+ Using something like the Dublin Core
+ Using the YAWIS acronym for this kind of wish
A temptative idea : if it's a short description, it could be laid beside the
name of the database, at the topmost end of the main window ; but to know
what
Pascal Georges wrote:
Hi!
> As far as I see, a scid DB consists of quite a bunch of
> files. Eg. time stamping for CC is stored in a file called
> *.sem. I could imagein to add another text file that
> contains the description and that is read if it's available.
> Just like th
Hello Alexander,
On Jun 22, 2008, at 7:59 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote:
[...]
> Exactly. ;) I'd suggest to base such a DB not on mass but on
> quality.
Agreed. We should decide how we will treat things like ambiguous
player names. Also, my opinion is that the seven-tag roster plus the
source tag
2008/6/22 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> As far as I see, a scid DB consists of quite a bunch of
> files. Eg. time stamping for CC is stored in a file called
> *.sem. I could imagein to add another text file that
> contains the description and that is read if it's available.
> Just like
Pascal Georges wrote:
Hi!
> [^wish] Wish-speak on. The database could also come with some
> premiliminary comment, but I don't know how it could be done in Scid.
>
>
> Scid bases contains at least a description field and a
> flag. One (poor) solution is to use the game #1 to enter
>
2008/6/22 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Well, acutally I think to host it together with scid would
> be great thing for new users. Both for a "scid reference db"
> and a "scid reference opening book". So, if there're some
> readers of the list that would want to take on the
> challenge,
Cory Helfrich wrote:
Hello Cory!
>> Also a community project within the current scid framework
>> to create such a DB is worth to consider. A start might be
>> "complete TWIC" plus manual selection of major tournaments
>> before TWIC started, or whatever. I don't know what the
>> community here
2008/6/22 Benoit St-Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>
> So I think we need a sample database. It should not be too big, just
> enough to see how things work. It should be interesting to have for
> its own sake.
>
I uploaded a sample DB in the download section. It can be a good start.
>
> [^wish]
Hi Alexander,
On Jun 22, 2008, at 2:33 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote:
[...]
> Also a community project within the current scid framework
> to create such a DB is worth to consider. A start might be
> "complete TWIC" plus manual selection of major tournaments
> before TWIC started, or whatever. I don'
Hi!
> The original idea sprung when writing a document I once called "Scid
> for the Impatient". In this kind of tutorial, you introduce the
> reader to the basic usage. Scid's on-line tutorial does that, but
> with an almost random database [^tutorial].
>
> So I think we need a sample databas
Pascal Georges wrote:
Hi!
> Also a community project within the current scid
> framework to create such a DB is worth to consider. A
> start might be "complete TWIC" plus manual selection
> of major tournaments before TWIC started, or
> whatever. I don't know what the communi
Hello again,
The original idea sprung when writing a document I once called "Scid
for the Impatient". In this kind of tutorial, you introduce the
reader to the basic usage. Scid's on-line tutorial does that, but
with an almost random database [^tutorial].
So I think we need a sample database.
>
> One could also think about offering a large reference DB.
> Some time ago chesslib.no offered a free 2*10^6 games subset
> of their main db, and they also released their final db to
> the public domain before the site went down. Today you can
> not get this DB from chesslib.no, but still I'd ha
Benoit St-Pierre wrote:
Hi!
> A few months ago was discussed the idea to include a
> default database. I was juggling about many ideas,
> nothing convincing : Morphy's games, Zurich 1953, the
> example database from [Scid's tutorial] [1], etc.
Well most of this can easily be created from a larg
Hi,
2008/6/22 Benoit St-Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> Hello,
>
> A few months ago was discussed the idea to include a default database.
> I was juggling about many ideas, nothing convincing : Morphy's games,
> Zurich 1953, the example database from [Scid's tutorial] [1], etc.
>
> But now I think
Hello,
A few months ago was discussed the idea to include a default database.
I was juggling about many ideas, nothing convincing : Morphy's games,
Zurich 1953, the example database from [Scid's tutorial] [1], etc.
But now I think something came up that seems very interesting : latest
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