Re: [Scid-users] special search

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Wagner
F. Charly wrote: Hi! The final point is to have a clean database with only proper player names, correct dates and no duplicate. >>> >>> Well, one can have dreams, can't one? >>> I think that it is a very hard job indeed >>> >>> Yes, I think such a base would be really worth so

Re: [Scid-users] special search

2009-04-06 Thread F. Charly
On 6 avr. 09, at 20:51, Alexander Wagner wrote: >> Can we create an open source chess database? > > That's the idea of CentriScid. > >> With a bit of maintenance it would grow quiet fast like a >> public library. Does it make sense? > > It makes _perfect_ sense. I'd strongly encourage you to join

Re: [Scid-users] special search

2009-04-06 Thread F. Charly
On 6 avr. 09, at 19:42, Chris Lott wrote: >>> The final point is to have a clean database with only >>> proper player names, correct dates and no duplicate. >> >> Well, one can have dreams, can't one? >> >>> I think that it is a very hard >>> job indeed >> >> Yes, I think such a base would be rea

Re: [Scid-users] special search

2009-04-06 Thread Chris Lott
On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: >> The final point is to have a clean database with only >> proper player names, correct dates and no duplicate. > > Well, one can have dreams, can't one? > >> I think that it is a very hard >> job indeed > > Yes, I think such a base would be

Re: [Scid-users] special search

2009-04-06 Thread Alexander Wagner
F. Charly wrote: Hi! > You are right, actually it didn't work as I imagined, I > still get all the games with strange player names and miss > the ancient players. Well... > Aslo I found in my base games of Torre, Eugenio dated > 1792!? Maybe that was July 1st, 1992 or January 7th, 1992 > that w

Re: [Scid-users] special search

2009-04-05 Thread F. Charly
Hi again, You are right, actually it didn't work as I imagined, I still get all the games with strange player names and miss the ancient players. Aslo I found in my base games of Torre, Eugenio dated 1792!? Maybe that was July 1st, 1992 or January 7th, 1992 that was understood as 1792. Als

Re: [Scid-users] special search

2009-04-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
F. Charly wrote: Hi! > That is a good idea, I filtered all the games with rating under 1000 > (that means no rating) and put them in a different base. Actually there > are some games I'd like to keep there such those of El Greco or Ruy > Lopez or very ancient players who doesn't have a rating.

Re: [Scid-users] special search

2009-04-05 Thread F. Charly
That is a good idea, I filtered all the games with rating under 1000 (that means no rating) and put them in a different base. Actually there are some games I'd like to keep there such those of El Greco or Ruy Lopez or very ancient players who doesn't have a rating. At least all the games le

Re: [Scid-users] special search

2009-04-05 Thread Alexander Wagner
F. Charly wrote: Hi! > Thanks ALexander, > I understand that. What I would like to do after a Spell Check Player > Names is to find all the games using the correct names and get rid of > the games using names which are not in the spp file (I am using Franz' > ratings_2009_01.ssp). > I have man

[Scid-users] special search

2009-04-05 Thread F. Charly
Hi, Is there a way to search in a database for games which players are in the Player Spelling (ssp) file? Doing this would allow to have a "clean" database. Charly -- ___ Sc