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Date: 14 Jul 2007 10:17:52
From: Azlan
Subject: Chess Problem Database
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I'm looking for a chess problem database that's compatible with the
ChessBase program. Their "MegaDatabase" series is good for tournament
games and all, but I need something with compositions for some work
I'm doing. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
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Date: 14 Jul 2007 14:40:48
From: Anders Thulin
Subject: Re: Chess Problem Database
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Azlan wrote:
> I'm looking for a chess problem database that's compatible with the
> ChessBase program. Their "MegaDatabase" series is good for tournament
> games and all, but I need something with compositions for some work
> I'm doing. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
ChessBase is a very bad platform for compositions: the only thing
I know of is the endgame study database HHDB sold by Harold van der Heijden,
and that really suffers from having to squeeze into a format that doesn't
care about compositions (PGN in that cse).
For instance, informations on tourneys and awards are shoehorned into the
'black' name field, and other related information into fields for tournaments
and such. You have to remember the encoding yourself, as ChessBase doesn't know
about them. Very unpleasant.
Thse chess composition databases I know about all avoid ChessBase formats.
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Anders Thulin anders*thulin.name http://www.anders.thulin.name/
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Date: 16 Jul 2007 11:35:09
From: Azlan
Subject: Re: Chess Problem Database
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Actually, I only mentioned ChessBase because it exports to PGN which
my program can read. However, I don't mind a database in any format as
long as it can be output to a *.txt (ASCII) readable format; like PGN
even if not necessarily that. I can always write a subroutine to
process the games. What are the compositions databases you were
referring to and where can I get them? Thanks.
On Sat, 14 Jul 2007 14:40:48 GMT, Anders Thulin
<[email protected] > wrote:
>Azlan wrote:
>> I'm looking for a chess problem database that's compatible with the
>> ChessBase program. Their "MegaDatabase" series is good for tournament
>> games and all, but I need something with compositions for some work
>> I'm doing. Any help is appreciated. Thanks.
>
> ChessBase is a very bad platform for compositions: the only thing
>I know of is the endgame study database HHDB sold by Harold van der Heijden,
>and that really suffers from having to squeeze into a format that doesn't
>care about compositions (PGN in that cse).
>
> For instance, informations on tourneys and awards are shoehorned into the
>'black' name field, and other related information into fields for tournaments
>and such. You have to remember the encoding yourself, as ChessBase doesn't know
>about them. Very unpleasant.
>
> Thse chess composition databases I know about all avoid ChessBase formats.
>
>--
>Anders Thulin anders*thulin.name http://www.anders.thulin.name/
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Date: 16 Jul 2007 16:12:12
From: Anders Thulin
Subject: Re: Chess Problem Database
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Azlan wrote:
> Actually, I only mentioned ChessBase because it exports to PGN which
> my program can read. However, I don't mind a database in any format as
> long as it can be output to a *.txt (ASCII) readable format; like PGN
> even if not necessarily that. I can always write a subroutine to
> process the games. What are the compositions databases you were
> referring to and where can I get them?
There are two I know on the web:
Meson http://www.bstephen.me.uk/chessproblems/meson/meson.html
PDB http://www.softdecc.com/pdb/index.pdb
Apart from that, try:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_for_handling_chess_problems
for more. Most are just solving prorgrams, but there are some fairly database-y
offerings. Problemist I find quite useful, myself.
You may also be interested in the (latest) attempt to create a
standard file format for chess compositions:
http://groups.google.com/group/chess-problem-xml
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Anders Thulin anders*thulin.name http://www.anders.thulin.name/
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