[Chessdb-users] Size or annotation limit on games?

[Cory H. <cor...@ya...>]

Hello Dr. Kirkby,

I have been happily using ChessDB. Thanks for continuing development on this project.

I have a question regarding any limits on the comments within games. I play mostly email chess, so my games tend to be rather full of annotations and variations. After the games reach a certain size, I start to receive a "Sorry, this game appears to be corrupt" dialog box. The Details button reveals the following:
Begin "Details" log
Sorry, this game appears to be corrupt.
Sorry, this game appears to be corrupt.
    while executing
"sc_game load $selection"
    (procedure "::game::Load" line 7)
    invoked from within
"::game::Load $number"
    (procedure "::game::LoadNextPrev" line 12)
    invoked from within
"::game::LoadNextPrev last"
    (menu invoke)
End "Details" log

Note that I regularly compact the game file, as even adding one move to some of my games bloats this fill by 50 K. Also note that I am running version 3.6.12-beta-1 on a Windows machine and the January 1 release on a Mac machine (I am at my Windows machine, so I am not sure of the version on the Mac). This problem occurs on both machines.

When I receive this message, I restore the backup copy of the database (learned this lesson the hard way), delete the game, and import a pgn of the game without comments (but with variations). I then continue until the problem happens again and then repeat the process. This kludge works, but I lose all of my annotations from past moves. Note that simply deleting the game and reimporting with the comments results in the same "Sorry, this game appears to be corrupt" dialog box.

Do you have any suggestions for avoiding this?

Best regards,
Cory



Cory Helfrich
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