On 2006-05-30, Kevin Croxen wrote:

Hi!

On 2006-05-27, dajava wrote:
I got this error message for the past several days.
Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
dajava,

You can't. The author has been incommunicado and the software evidently
abandoned since April 2004.

Following the thread here in the newsgroup and also the
chessx development list, I just wanted to say that according
to my information Shane did _NOT_ abandon his software,
especially not on purpose and also tough some posts here
read like that he did (according to my information) not just
grab the money and dissapper.

However if you are searching "just" for some food for his
great program you might want to check out TWIC e.g. where
you can also download older issues:

http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/zips/twic$1g.zip

Just replace $1 by the number you want to retrieve. At least
up till arround 210 (dating 1998) this is possible. How you
can get quite a decent database on any unix system is "left
as an exercise for the student", but think in the direction
of "for()"...

Also www.chesslib.no offered quite a good database but they
seem to restructure their web presence right now. And of
course one should not forget

http://www.pitt.edu/~schach/Archives/

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Kind regards,
Alexander Wagner