> Scid is not stripping trailing periods. It is the users choice.
This is what I mean, for instance if I open the spellchecker it gives
the following :
"Antipov, Mikhail Al." >> "Antipov, Mikhail Al"
because all the names in spelling.ssp are stripped. If you have
thousands of names in the database the user normally will accept
without editing. Thus stripping the periods is the "default" in Scid.
> Even FIDE have trouble with christian/surnames
> http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=25093355
> There is no comma in the name - impossible to know christian/surname
Yes, these names cannot be recovered automatically, the database
of FIDE is a mess, even the player database of ChessBase suffers from
the slovenliness of FIDE.
I think that it is important to identify a player even if the name will be
spelled differently, e.g. in Germany Russian names will be spelled
(transliterated) differently than in English. It would be great if the
name can be combined with an unique ID. An almost unique identification
exists, namely the FIDE ID, but FIDE is reusing deleted ID's, so it is not
really unique, and FIDE does not provide ID's for ancient players. It would
be nice if a unique ID even for ancient players exists. In this way a user may
enter "Tschechower, Witali" (German transliteration), combined with any
unique ID XXXXXXX, and an English user can identify this player as "Chekhover,
Vitaly" (English transliteration), because of the unique ID XXXXXXX (the
application will do the mapping, of course). IMO such an unique ID is the only
way to solve the spelling problem.
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