I have a personal database of all 348 of my over-the-board tournament games. They exist in a pgn format, so I can load them with Scid vs. PC, Chessbase, or whatever GUI I choose.
What would you like to know?
Do you already have a copy of them digitally, say, in a pgn format, for example? Or do they only exist on paper? If they only exist on paper, you will, of course, have to enter them by hand.
On my Scid vs. PC tribute page, I believe I mention how to add a game that you just played to your database, or something to that effect. Check out the Tips Section.
Creating a person database
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MrEdCollins wrote:
I have a personal database of all 348 of my over-the-board tournament games. They exist in a pgn format, so I can load them with Scid vs. PC, Chessbase, or whatever GUI I choose.
What would you like to know?
Do you already have a copy of them digitally, say, in a pgn format, for example? Or do they only exist on paper? If they only exist on paper, you will, of course, have to enter them by hand.
On my Scid vs. PC tribute page, I believe I mention how to add a game that you just played to your database, or something to that effect. Check out the Tips Section.
Actually I'm planning on transferring games played on chess com, and other sites into the database by downloading pgn files. My main aim is to use the statistics function to try and pinpoint areas where I do not fully understant the plans, and then systematically work through them.
I would like to know if it is an effective tool for quickly interpreting information about positions in the database. The chess com database is quite easy to interpret and to search for master games played from that position.
Scid vs. PC can run circles around any search function that chess.com might have. Here's a few links to get you started:
http://scid.sourceforge.net/tutorial/t_search_intro.html
http://scid.sourceforge.net/tutorial/t_search_board.html
http://scid.sourceforge.net/tutorial/t_search_tree.html
http://scid.sourceforge.net/help/Searches.html
A few examples:
You can search games for Common Patterns:
- Black isolated Queen Pawn
- Rook sacrifice on c3
- O-O-O vs O-O
- Light Square Fianchettos
- Maroczy Center (pawns on c4 and e4)
You can search games for Common Endings:
- Double Rook Endings
- Rook vs Rook with a passed a-pawn
- Queen and 1 Pawn vs Queen
- Queen vs 2 Rooks
My opionion is Chessbase isn't all that great. I have Chessbase and I almost never use it. I prefer Scid vs. PC.
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MrEdCollins wrote:
My opionion is Chessbase isn't all that great. I have Chessbase and I almost never use it. I prefer Scid vs. PC.
I've seen some of what Chessbase can do and there are features in it that very compelling and that SCID (and its variants) can't do or can't do easily. I really like the ability to search across multiple databases at the same time (not sure what they call that) as I have a few different databases (a couple for online sites and one for OTB games). I also like the table layout of lines, where it can show moves that haven't been played in a while and moves that have been played most recently. You can get the latter information from SCID but it isn't as easy.
That said, most of what any amatuer player needs can be done with SCID (or SCID vs PC). I would say 85-90% of what Chessbase can do and it's free.
As it seems chess coms personal database is indefinitely out of order, I have been looking to create a personal database of my games elsewhere.
I have downloaded SCID for mac. Does anyone have any experience in using this program for creating a personal database?