Re: [Scid-users] Exclude blitz events in search

[Alexander W. <aw-...@st...>]

On 12/04/11 15:13, Mark Cooper wrote:

Hi!

> I'm trying to work out how to filter my database to show me Nimzo-Indian
> games that are not blitz events.
>
> I can easily find the Nimzo games but don't know how to then exclude
> "blitz" from the Event field when I try search header.
 >
> Any suggestions please?

You may only find them if the mode is recognisable by some header tag. 
Say if your tournament is named "blitz" or the like. Scid only knows 
those "metadata"  as the PGN header knows off. You can add additional 
header fields, however, or, even more effectively, add flags to mark 
games played in Blitz, Rapid or other modes. (Mode "Blitz") comes to 
mind for a header tag, or the use of custom flags.

Otherwise, Scid is unable to know on what time scale a game was played. 
Just imagine that you don't get this information if you just look up the 
game notation.

BTW: in case you want to check out games that were not played under any 
sort of time pressure, you might use a database of correspondence chess 
games. E.g. just fetch the ICCF games archive which is available free of 
charge at the ICCF Webpage. Those games are played at 10 moves in 50 
days (usually).

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