[Scidvspc-users] Chess Games Repository

[Benoit St-J. <bs...@ya...>]

First, a few questions before I tell you my "story" (see below the email I wrote 3 days ago)

1) How does ScidVsPC differ from SCID and chessDB ?
2) Are the names and rating files up to date and updated regularly ?
3) Is there any active development and any roadmap for future releases?
4) Any plan to push the 16 million games limit any time soon?
5) Is the old format (chessDB and the previous SCID format) recognized by ScidVsPC ?


Now, my new project.  Here's what I posted to a few newsgroups, Yahoo groups and Goggle groups...  Hope you enjoy.  Obviously, it struck me that without new ratings and names files (SCID and chessDB files are outdated), I'll have to use ScidVsPC to make sure I cleanup the master database effectively.


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Hello everyone,

I have started a blog (chessgamesrepository.wordpress.com) for one
simple reason : frustration.  How many of you quietly download and
collect tons of PGN games that you patiently import into your
database?  We all do the same and waste tons of time, effort and
bandwith while we could all cooperate and make things so much easier!

I came to the conclusion that if we all share the effort, everything
would be so simple!  That’s why I’ll start collecting PGN files and
import them into one master database that we will all share.  FOR FREE
obviously!

I’m planning on releasing a new database once a month.  I will use
ChessDB (available for Unix and Windows) to manage the master
database.  I’m not decided on what to include/exclude in this database
but I’m thinking on keeping only games where one of the player has
over 2200 ELO rating.  I guess we don’t want crap in this database.
Anyhow, suggestions are welcome and discussion takes place in the new
Yahoo group I just created (http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/
chessgamesrepository)!  I’m open to discussion regarding what to keep,
what to exclude, what to normalize, etc.

If you have games in ChessAssistant format, ChessBase, SCID, Scid vs
PC, ChessX, ChessMaster, etc., you’re more than welcome to help and
convert them into PGN format.   If you own one of these chess
databases, I will probably need your help to convert some of those
files into PGN.  The more we are, the better!

Ten million games in 6 months is my goal.

One contributor per country is also another goal I have!  Every
country has a chess federation/association/league, everyone of you
knows a chess club we don’t know about, everyone of you has its site
no one knows about, everyone of you has games others don’t have, etc.

Together, we’re better, stronger, smarter!

Together, as a community of chess players, we can help each other
towards a common goal : make a damn good and huge database of chess
games!

If you have questions or comments, you can answer me privately at:
chessgamesrepository [@] yahoo [dot] com


If you're interested:

Our blog: chessgamesrepository.wordpress.com
Our discussion group: http://games.groups.yahoo.com/group/chessgamesrepository/
Our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/TheChessGamesRepository
Our email: chessgamesrepository [@] yahoo [dot] com

Thanks!
 
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Benoit St-Jean
Yahoo! Messenger: bstjean
A standpoint is an intellectual horizon of radius zero.
(Albert Einstein)