Good Morning! > A current open point in scid's features is the import of > rating lists. Currently Franz Nagl supplies some from time > to time but as I got him in some discussion his algorithm > is not yet publishable and involves some manual work. Is > there a chance to ease this up, maybe by some > functionality to read in the current ratings from within > scid and just update the current files from time to time? > Would be a helpfull feature I think.
Concerning this issue I contacted Franz Nagl about his procedure. Here is a (free) translation of his answer to my mail. Till 10/2006 Franz used http://www.anjo.demon.nl as input. This seems no longer available as it is not updated. So he changed procedures and now gets the data directly from the FIDE server and parses the FIDE elo files (e.g. OCT07FRL.TXT). There several problems show up which may be of interest to solve within scid: * Names are not unique E.g. Botvinnik, Mikhail, IDNr. 2805650 is not the world chapion (Botvinnik, Mikhail USR) but Botvinnik, Mikhail ISR Horvath, Tamas gives 5 matches that have to be sorted in. This problem was solved in Anjos list mentioned above. * Bugs in the FIDE List itself Franz mentioned that the FIDE-ID is _NOT_ unique. The get recycled once a player does not show up on the list anymore. (Obviously they smoked somthing very bad when inventing this... ;) Franz told me that he'd be willing to help the project as far as his time allows. He thought about building some MySQL database, but here I think that scid should be the database itself. -- Kind regards, Alexander Wagner Universitaetsbibliothek Ilmenau Langewiesener Str. 37 98693 Ilmenau Tel.: 03677/69-4521 , Fax.: 03677/69-4617 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of Linux Business White Paper from Novell. From the desktop to the data center, Linux is going mainstream. Let it simplify your IT future. http://altfarm.mediaplex.com/ad/ck/8857-50307-18918-4 _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
