Dear friends,
I have two questions about how to best use databases with SCID4.0:
a) I have downloaded the huge ICOfY database (
http://sourceforge.net/projects/icofybase/) which now contains over 4
million games. I have combined the 5 subases (A through E) into one SCID4
database. What I would like to do now is to filter out all the games in
which both players do not have at least a 2200 rating. How can I do that?
b) I have been following an interesting thread on chess.com (
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/chess-equipment/convert-mega2009-to-pgn) in
which the participants discuss the legality of exporting the Mega2009
database to PGN notation and then making it available for the rest of us.
Nobody is making an argument that this would be illegal as long as two
conditions are met i) Mega2009 is exported into PGN and not distributed in
its original format and ii) the Mega2009 database is exported to PGN with
all the commentaries which CB has paid chessmasters for. I have two
questions in this respect:
a) do you believe that this is correct and that such an export of
a Mega2009 stripped from comments into PGN format would be legal?
b) if yes, do you know if anybody has already made this and where
this database can be downloaded?
Lastly, how would you rate the various databases out there? There is the
1,74 million game database, there is the uge ICOfY, there is the Chess
Analysis Openings database, the UAB CIS enormous database, etc. Which would
you rate as the highest quality database and, if you know, how would these
publicly available databases compare to a proprietary one like Mega2009?
Thanks in advance for any comments, kind regards,
Andrei
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