Re: [Scidvspc-users] Databases, 4.18.1 point release

[Britton F. <bri...@gm...>]

i downloaded the file and got the same checksum as gerardo,
b0b885690a2ac66b9e2121318361c8ef.
The size was 192606472 so steve apparently you some got shorted 1 byte
somewhere

On Wed, Aug 2, 2017 at 9:52 AM, Alan Whiteman <a.c...@gm...>
wrote:

> Hi Steve,
>
> It was very kind for Katar to share the link, but wouldn't it make more
> sense to host the millbase file in either scidvspc's website or git
> repository? That is, directly instead of pointing to a third party.
>
>
> On 08/02/2017 03:50 AM, Steve A wrote:
>
>> 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
>>
>>
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