Hallo, Am Montag 03 Dezember 2007 20:28:56 schrieb pgeorges: > 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 ? This is solved in scid with Aliases like:
Kasparov, Garry #gm URS/RUS [2851] 1963.??.?? %ID 4100018 %Title gm:1980 %Bio World Champion, 1985-93 %Bio Non-FIDE (PCA,...) World Champion, 1993-2000 = Kasparov, Gary = Kasparov, Garri = Kasparov, Garik = Kasparov, Garrik = Kasparov, Garry K %Elo 1979:?,2545 1980:2595 1981:2625,2630 1982:2640,2675 %Elo 1983:2690,2690 1984:2710,2715 1985:2715,2700 1986:2720,2740 %Elo 1987:2735,2740 1988:2750,2760 1989:2775,2775 1990:2800,2800 %Elo 1991:2800,2770 1992:2780,2790 1993:2805,2805 1994:2805,2805 %Elo 1995:2805,2795 1996:2775,2785 1997:2795,2820 1998:2825,2815 %Elo 1999:2812,2851 2000:2851,2849 2001:2849,2827,2838,2838 %Elo 2002:2838,2838,2838,2838 2003:2847,2830,2830,2830 %Elo 2004:2831,2817,2817,2813 2005:2804,2812,2812,2812 %Elo 2006:2812,2812,2812,2812 2007:2812,2812,2812 scid recognice aliases and change them to Kasparov, Garry The same with married Players like: Atalik, Ekaterina #im+wgm RUS/TUR [2414] 1982.??.?? %ID 4130189 = Polovnikova, Ekaterina > 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 mfg Franz ------------------------------------------------------------------------- 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
