Thank you very much Chris for your contribution to the community Le dim. 4 août 2024 à 18:03, chris.t.mackey <chris.t.mac...@gmail.com> a écrit :
> CaissaBase was the starting point for CheeseBase. If you have been > updating it with TWIC that is pretty good. > > CheeseBase has all that plus some computer vs computer and correspondence > chess added. All data I found. Nothing original. > > My only contribution honestly is to take the lichess names and data of top > players and add that to the database but using their formal names. This > adds thousands of games for Magnus and Hikaru but also many of the top 50 > or so players where I could find their lichess names. > > This brings the game totals for some players into the tens of thousands. > Name search has issues above 9999 games but that has already been patched > for the next SCIDvsPC release. In the meantime I use the filter function > instead of name search. > > Free for all though. So free you can copy and paste it, change the name > to JeromeBase and sell it for a profit. > > To criticize it. CheeseBase has dupes in the data. CheeseBase adds lots > of lichess data but that adds a new pool of ratings and makes all the top > rated games from these pools. Most all the lichess data is bullet or blitz > and that pollutes a classical database. > > It is the largest collection of games for many top players though so there > is some value there. > > I generally update Monday or Tuesday after Mark at TWIC does. Rarely is > there other data. Maybe I will do another lichess dump or a chess.com > dump for top players at year end but it was time consuming. > > Chris > > > > Sent from my Galaxy > > > -------- Original message -------- > From: Jerome Monscavoir <jmonscav...@gmail.com> > Date: 8/4/24 11:40 AM (GMT-05:00) > To: Steve A <stevena...@gmail.com> > Cc: scidvspc-users <scidvspc-users@lists.sourceforge.net>, > chris.t.mac...@gmail.com > Subject: Re: [Scidvspc-users] New database > > Hello all, > > FYI usually i use Caissa-Base http://caissabase.co.uk/ > i don't know the difference > > Regards > > > Le jeu. 1 août 2024 à 12:06, Steve A <stevena...@gmail.com> a écrit : > >> Hi Guys, >> Just a little heads up for the adventurous about Chris' database. >> CheeseBase (which i guess is a pun on the name Chessbase!?). I don't have >> heaps of bandwidth and don't even use big DBs much, so thought to throw it >> out there. He plans to update it often, and reckons >> I have updated CaissaBase to the current date and fixed many issues in >> CaissaBase that I noticed. >> >> I also added many of the top players games from lichess and converted >> their names to their formal name so they would show up in a player search. >> I also added a lot of correspondence chess and computer vs computer chess. >> >> I don't have ChessBase, but I suspect CheeseBase is the largest >> collection of Magnus Carlsen games in the world available currently >> with 17,805 games. >> >> If you wanted to include a link to my database, called CheeseBase, you >> can. It is free software. >> >> >> https://drive.google.com/file/d/1vLP1ftIYy7A6HHZuRW4VX_64lV5ZYp3j/view?usp=drive_link >> >> I update the above link usually every Monday or Tuesday with games from >> TWIC / Mark Crowther. The link shouldn't change, I update with a new >> version when I upload. >> >> And off-topic, but i have to link a video of a recent Crunchlabs GM >> event/rapid... eventful stuff . >> https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMBCK9sy9Rs >> cheers S.A. >> _______________________________________________ >> Scidvspc-users mailing list >> Scidvspc-users@lists.sourceforge.net >> https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scidvspc-users >> > > > -- > Jérôme Monsçavoir > jmonscav...@gmail.com > 06 07 90 89 57 > > > > > -- Jérôme Monsçavoir jmonscav...@gmail.com 06 07 90 89 57
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