--- In [email protected], Michael W Thelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > date, dictionary used, tournament etc.)
>
> I think that kind of information should definitely be part of the
> format. In particular, for analyzing historical games, the lexicon
used
> is of great importance! Even today's games will become historical
> eventually. In fact, for OWL players, games played two weeks ago are
> already historical. :-)
>
> If you're familiar with the PGN format for chess games, you'll know
that
I'll take a loog at the PGN format, but here is my initial stab at
what should be included in the XML file:
Game Meta Data:
Player1Name
Player2Name
Player1Rating
Player2Rating
Tournament
Date
Round
Dictionary
Notes (this could contain a description of the game or situation,
historical significance etc or just various notes)
Optional
Player1FinalScore
Player2FinalScore
Player1EquityLoss
Player2EquityLoss
These could be calculated from the game details but I thought it might
make things easier to have them in the meta data as well.
For cross-tables.com we would use playerids and tournamentids instead
of names but I don't think we'd need to include that in an XML file.
Game Details:
Player# (1 or 2)
Turn
Rack
Play
Location (ie A7)
Score
EquityLoss
Annotations
This could include the top x simming moves from Quackle plus any text
annotations you wanted to add.
Optional
CumulativeScore
Leave
We could also calculate these but it might be easier to include them
separately.
Some things we'd have to decide:
How to indicate what letters on the board were played through. In the
sim log files, it looks like they just use a period for letters played
through, which should work fine (though if we wanted the xml to be
more universal, it might be better to use parenthesis or something)
How to indicate exchanges
How to indicate a bad challenge
How to indicate a good challenge
I'm sure I got some stuff wrong and left other things out, though.
As for the historical library, two issues are the amount of data
available and annotating games with older dictionaries (OSPD1, Funk &
Wagnalls etc, though the latter probably isn't worth worrying about)
As for the data, I'd estimate there are about 400-500 past games
available in various sources:
204 on the NSA website
c45 in Medleys
80 in Wapnick's two books (though we'd have to check with him before
using these)
Scrabble News: ? - probably about 125-150 total but I'd guess about
100 that aren't already on the NSA site. I'm not sure when they
started the monthly annotated game (though I'll know by Monday) -
there were only about 16 in the first 50 or so issues.
JG Newsletter: ?
Other sources: ? I know of about 5-10 other ones out there (the 505-
505 game, a game between Maven and Adam Logan etc).
Any one know of others?
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