Benoit St-Pierre wrote:
Hi!
> At least three persons in a chess forum told me that they will stick
> to Chessdb as long as they can upload and append PGN games directly
> into their chess database.
Ok, here's how things go:
- It's technically feasible
- It's even trivial
BUT: we will not do it.
Why?
For the communities sake.
I just talked with Mark about the issue. Point is, as always, money.
TWIC is financed by a sponsorship based on advertisments from various
interested parties. From this follows, the site needs real visitors for
the sponsor to invest money and thus keep the site alive. Endangering
this is of course out of question.
Therefore, Mark told me that he does not want us to automatise the PGN
download, at the moment. But he also told me that we should stay in
touch, even about the issue, as there might some day be a solution to it
and than he'd happily see Scid integrating TWIC.
At least I for one will respect this. There's a saying in the region
where I was born which translates something like: "Nothing in life is
for free. Even death. It costs the life." (Ok, it's wrong, Scid is for
free. ;)
Sorry.
Therefore, those above will have to stick to ChessDB if it works there
still. Anyway, I'd suggest to them to come over to Scid. Given the
background they should do it not only for the many more features Scid
offers.
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