Alexander Wagner a écrit : > 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 There are many problems here to solve, with some kind of fuzzy logic. For example I just noticed some people write Kasparov, Garry or Kasparov, Gary
How to handle all possibilities ? Using a Mysql database will not solve anything, as it is just a repository. To have things done in Scid is an idea, and Tcl should be efficient enough even with a somewhat important base. I think a 100% Tcl solution would ease things. But note also I am quite happy to get Franz Nagl files and copy them in Scid distribution. Pascal ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
