[Scidvspc-users] Databases, 4.18.1 point release

[Steve A <ste...@gm...>]

Hi,

I notice that Millbase is discontinuing updates, and may not even be
available now, (as when i tried it, the link on the webpage is dead).
  http://katar.weebly.com/blog/millbase-for-scid-update2

Katar points to a new (?) database, Kingbase
  http://www.kingbase-chess.net/
But the file i downloaded from that site,
  KingBase2017-scid.zip
  md5sum 63fc3ee9215de9fdd814eba8e85c90a3 , size 192606471
seems an invalid zip archive. Could someone with a faster internet than me
give this link a go and/or contact the author and ask about it, and let us
know the story.
We currently link to Millbase in our help topics, but might change this for
4.18.1 (see below)

On a related note, Gregor has found that Millbase has one corrupted game
, which was caused by importing an inaccurate pgn game with Scid/ScidvsPC.
The game is
Swathi, G (2260)    --    Neelotpal, D (2461)    (0-1)
Event : 6. Mayors Cup 2013, Mumbai IND  (2013.06.05, Round 10)
and if you have millbase, you can see the last move is wrong.

Gregor has fixed the bug in ScidvsPC's encoding,
and as we also have minor regressions/bugs in the Best Games window
(reported by my number #1 bug hunter, Ileano [thanks]), we will make a
point release of 4.18.1 shortly, perhaps this weekend.

Cheers, Steve

PS I have included the broken game's correct PGN below, which will work
with current ScidvsPC.

[Event "6. Mayors Cup 2013"]
[Site "Mumbai IND"]
[Date "2013.06.05"]
[Round "10"]
[White "Swathi, G"]
[Black "Neelotpal, D"]
[Result "0-1"]
[WhiteElo "2260"]
[BlackElo "2461"]
[ECO "C55"]
[EventDate "2013.05.29"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 Nc6 3. Bc4 Nf6 4. d3 Be7 5. Bb3 O-O 6. Nbd2 d6 7. c3 Na5 8.
Bc2 c5 9. O-O Nc6 10. Re1 Re8 11. Nf1 h6 12. Ng3 Bf8 13. h3 Qc7 14. Nh2 Be6
15. Qf3 Nh7 16. Nf5 Rad8 17. Ng4 d5 18. Ba4 Kh8 19. h4 dxe4 20. dxe4 f6 21.
Nge3 Qf7 22. Qe2 g6 23. Ng3 h5 24. b3 Qc7 25. Bb2 Bh6 26. Rad1 Rxd1 27.
Rxd1 Rd8 28. Ngf1 Rxd1 29. Qxd1 a6 30. Nd5 Qd8 31. c4 Nd4 32. b4 Bf8 33.
bxc5 Bxc5 34. Nfe3 b5 35. cxb5 axb5 36. Bc2 Nxc2 37. Nxc2 Kg7 38. Qd3 Bxd5
39. exd5 Qb6 40. Ne3 Nf8 41. Bc1 f5 42. Nd1 Nd7 43. Qd2 Nf6 44. Bb2 Bd4 45.
Kf1 Nxd5 46. g3 b4 47. Bxd4 Qxd4 48. Ke1 Qc4 49. Ne3 Nxe3 50. Qxe3 e4 51.
Qb6 Qc3+ 52. Ke2 Qd3+ 53. Ke1 Qb1+ 54. Ke2 Qxa2+ 55. Ke3 Qb3+ 56. Kf4 Qf3+
57. Ke5 Qc3+ 58. Kd5 b3 59. Qb7+ Kh6 60. Qb8 b2 61. Ke6 Kh7 62. Qb7+ Qg7
63. Qb5 Qg8+ 64. Kf6 Qf8+ 65. Ke6 Qg7 66. Qb4 g5 67. hxg5 e3 68. fxe3 f4
69. Kf5 b1=Q+ 0-1