Benoit St-Pierre wrote:
Hi!
> Just looking at Zurich 1953 casually made me found, for
> the first 30 games, something like one very good exercise
> every two games. And that's just with the help of
> comments, diagrams and my wetware mind. Finding good
> exercises is not that difficult ; finding fair exercises
> with a computer is even easier.
Well, this would vote for generating CentriScid and just
draw exercises from that DB based on the indexing of games
that come into that DB. They have to be looked over anyway
and if one finds a motive in that process just flag it (one
could even use that feature outside of the training idea!)
and then draw these from the main DB. I made some suggestion
in that direction this morning but it seems not to have made
it to the list. I just bounced it again.
> We should not rely on manual classication, but something
> like pattern recognition. Manual classification is
> expensive and error-prone : just look at the mess with
> bibliographic keywords. (It's not your fault, Alex ;-)
Not that I want to deilusionise you here, but even for as
simple as things as plain text automatic indexing is in the
making for quite a while, and still it's better to have
someone from the discipline to look it over. The problems
you mention mainly result in the fact that e.g. I, as a
physicist by profession have to index machine building.
Plus, something I blame many of my collegues for (not all,
but I fear the broad majority): they do not like to do
indexing, they think it's not their job and for that reason
either don't do it at all or do it badly.
> An exercise can comprise more than one theme : which one
> is it to be classified ?
Its never an error to add another keyword... It can have
both. Ie. you can also have multiple flags.
> Anyway, the biggest problem, IMHO, will be with the
> headers. Chess database are organized around real games.
> Exercices based on real game can provide information. We
> just have to decide how to tell the user that it's just a
> game fragment in the game list. (Suppose we have 10
> exercises out of a single game.)
Ahm, add a flag for "game fragment"...
> But for endgame, that is already more difficult. How are
> we to indicate that it's the Vancura position we are
> practicing ? A line with question marks is very
> uninformative. Maybe we should think about this, while
> thinking about the normalization of header information.
I made some suggestion for that in my other mail.
> If you meet a Quebecer, wish him happy national day !
Happy national day :)
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