Archive search output format

tellymetwise · Post by **tellymetwise** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 12:19 pm

Hey Greg, you have created a fine site already. I wouldn't know how this could made better, except for one thing

The archive, could it be date stamped+rated and made searchable on opening moves (or ECO) only?
(btw, have you divided your archive in a header and body for quicker search?)

Post by **gmiller** » Wed Nov 26, 2003 2:00 pm

The archive is stored in a table just like the active games are, but regurgitated in PGN format (the end date/time and ratings are in the table but not the ouput, but that can be changed). But rather than adding a search for certain openings, etc, I'd rather just allow a complete download of all games so that they could be imported into Chessmaster, Fritz, or any other game and you could do your searches that way.

toverturf · Post by **toverturf** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 4:56 am

There is something I do all the time:

I click on all my games, go to a game, click on the match link.

It would be really nice if the match link were available from "All my games"

Just a thought... Thanks for asking the question!

Thad

alepheins · Post by **alepheins** » Thu Nov 27, 2003 3:24 pm

Hi Greg,

I'd like to see the 'PGN'-output being more like PGN. Especially the missing game termination marker produces errors when importing the resulting file. Adherence to the 'seven tag roster' etc. would also be nice.

dragondude · Post by **dragondude** » Fri Nov 28, 2003 2:40 am

alepheins wrote:Hi Greg,

I'd like to see the 'PGN'-output being more like PGN. Especially the missing game termination marker produces errors when importing the resulting file. Adherence to the 'seven tag roster' etc. would also be nice.

alepheins is right!, when I import web-page and convert the pgn to my dragon-data-base it does not bring the date across

, all my games are dateless

, as well, the "draws" show up as incompleted games because the pgn header is not correct

, and often when a "pawn-promotion" is in an endgame , the pgn does not translate correctly to show Q , or Rook, or Knight.

These are minor inconvieniences,

but when dealing with large data bases and many games, they become a nuicance.

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Post by **gmiller** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 11:00 am

The archvie search (both advanced and normal) should now conform as to the PGN standard. Let me know if I missed anything.

tellymetwise · Post by **tellymetwise** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 3:45 pm

Greg,

The ordering in the headers is important.
The order you should keep is:

[Event "m1064443877"]
[Site "net-chess.com"]
[Date "2003.11.18"]
[White "tellymetwise"]
[Black "keithstuart"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1800"]
[BlackElo "2419"]
[Board "g1064443877"]

Problems that will pop-up are, missed rating, site etc if you don't.

Post by **gmiller** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 3:59 pm

Changed the ordering, but put Round below Date as specified Here.

alepheins · Post by **alepheins** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 5:51 pm

gmiller wrote:The archvie search (both advanced and normal) should now conform as to the PGN standard. Let me know if I missed anything.

Thanx for reacting that fast ! Now looks fine to me, but there are two faults which happen at times:
Promotion pieces are missing (move 8!):

[Event ""]
[Site "net-chess.com"]
[Date "2001.11.19"]
[Round "1"]
[White "eraymond"]
[Black "nickbarletta"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1655"]
[BlackElo "1782"]
[Game "g999599443"]
[Reason "black resigned."]

1.e4 e5 2.f4 exf4 3.Ng1f3 Nb8c6 4.d4 g5 5.d5 g4 6.dxc6 gxf3 7.cxb7
fxg2 8.bxc8 Qd8f6 11.Ke1d1 d6 12.Bc1d2 Ng8e7 13.Bd2c3 Qf6h4 14.Bc3xh8 1-0

Spaces are missing, (move 14./15.!):

[Event ""]
[Site "net-chess.com"]
[Date "2002.01.31"]
[Round "1"]
[White "eraymond"]
[Black "salaschess"]
[Result "1-0"]
[WhiteElo "1678"]
[BlackElo "1800"]
[Game "g999606455"]
[Reason "black timed out."]

1.e4 Nb8c6 2.f4 d5 3.e5 Bc8f5 4.Ng1f3 e6 5.d4 f6 6.Bf1b5 Ng8e7
7.exf6 gxf6 8.Bc1e3 Qd8d6 9.Qd1d2 0-0-0 10.Nb1c3 a6 11.Bb5e2
Rh8g8 12.g3 e5 13.dxe5 fxe5 14.fxe5 Nc6xe515.Nf3xe5 Qd6xe5 16.0-0-0
c5 17.Be3xc5 d4 18.Bc5xd4 Qe5c7 19.Be2f3 Bf5g4 20.Bf3xg4 Rg8xg4
21.Qd2f2 Bf8h6 22.Kc1b1 Qc7c6 23.Bd4c5 Rd8xd1 24.Rh1xd1 Ne7g6
25.Qf2f5 1-0

Post by **gmiller** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 6:05 pm

Do these just appear on older games, or are there some newer ones (e.g. past couple months) that have them too? This may be a problem I've already corrected as I don't see how these errors could occurr with the current source code. The old games can't be fixed (easily).

alepheins · Post by **alepheins** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 6:34 pm

Youngest I can find (without downloading the whole archive file) is of 03/2003. So it seems to be fixed actually.

eraymond · Post by **eraymond** » Sat Nov 29, 2003 9:18 pm

wow !! alepheins, it is very flaterring that you check my games

tellymetwise · Post by **tellymetwise** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 5:30 am

gmiller wrote:Do these just appear on older games, or are there some newer ones (e.g. past couple months) that have them too? This may be a problem I've already corrected as I don't see how these errors could occurr with the current source code. The old games can't be fixed (easily).

I've seen this with keith's games too, but only 1 or 2 moves per game within a short period of time. Total of 14 games out of a lot more then 14 games. Probably some chance you made and undid or updated the day after.

alepheins · Post by **alepheins** » Sun Nov 30, 2003 2:11 pm

eraymond wrote:wow !! alepheins, it is very flaterring that you check my games

Well, eraymond, I was searching for games with mistakes ...

But seriously: The errors in the newer games (last months) seem to come from wrong entered moves in thematics. Strange that in the game window the notations are correct, only the PGN is wrong.

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Archive search output format

Um, yeah

PGN

Re: PGN