Re: [Scid-users] Opening databases

[Dale Hards]

On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 7:07 AM, Philipp Enoeckl
<philipp.enoe...@gmail.com>wrote:

> Don't get me wrong, but where exacly is the difference between opening
> database and game database? To me, the only difference seems that the
> game database simply has more pieces of information. (pgn-Files
> ordered by openings [but not Eco!] can be downloaded at
> http://www.pgnmentor.com/files.html and i can really recommend these
> ;-) , gives you a really good overview over the most important
> variations in each opening)
>

Thank you very much for this pointer. I have a db of games already which I
am confident of the quality of, but I will keep in mind the PGN Mentor site.
It sounds like it could be useful.

My confusion came about because I thought an opening database is not a
collection of games. But I will certainly take a look at PGN Mentor.


>
> However, I think, what you want, is like an opening book in electronic
> form, at least, that is what i think of, when i read "from white/black
> perspective..." , but this is - in my opinion - no database anymore.
> Some of my chess books can also be purchased in electronic form, but i
> couldn't find a pattern, which ones can and which can't.
>
> Regards
> Philipp
>
> P.S. my english sucks, sorry for that
>

I thought your English was excellent, don't worry. Thank you very much for
your reply!

Dale


>
>
>
> On 3/11/10, Dale Hards <dale.ha...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> > Hello,
> >
> > Once again, well done on a fantastic piece of software. SCID is easily my
> > favourite open-source software, and I use it a lot.
> >
> > I was hoping someone on the mailing list could point me in the direction
> of
> > a good free and legal (ie not plagiarised material) PGN for an opening
> > database, from either white/black/both perspective. I've done some pretty
> > extensive Googling over the last few weeks, and found a few leads but
> > nothing came to any luck. I've heard of the Chess Analysis Project and
> > downloaded all the a-opening PGNs but found they were just games ordered
> by
> > ECO.
> >
> > I imagine an opening database to be a collection of openings not a
> > collection of games. Is this correct? Any pointers to an appropriate
> > download would be very much appreciated. The opening trainer is one of
> the
> > few features in SCID I have yet to use.
> >
> > If there is no free offering anywhere then I guess I could buy one... but
> > where would I go? It seems nowhere offer this kind of thing to buy or
> > download free.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
> > Dale
> >
>

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