[chessx-developer] Store games in native binary format

[Leif E. L. <le...@on...>]

Hi,

I see in your "feature fantasy list" that "store games in native binary 
format" is something you are considering. I think this is a great idea 
as long as the database format will support really huge number of games, 
because other chess database desktop programs available all suffer when 
number of games exceed some millions. Most programs simply crash or hang 
(for example Scid, Hiarcs and Shredder) if you try to import from a 
pgn-file with too many games. Others just silently stop reading after 
the first 2GB (for example Chess King) of the stream whilst for example 
ChessBase starts to be very sluggish when working on games database with 
more than, say, 20 million games. Now that lichess.org and others let us 
download pgn-files with tens of millions games each month I think many 
people, including myself, are looking for better chess database software 
for their desktop needs.

I am curious about your thoughts on this. Is the native binary database 
format support something you are actually working on? Any chance that 
this will be implemented soon?

Kind regards
Leif Erik Larsen