mike wrote:
I have noticed the same limitation after 80-100 game downloads. I *kind of*
understand the necessity to restrict game downloads so it won't bog down the
server -- but doing it for histories seems a little bit paranoid, especially
as few as 100.
Sorry, it was games in their history. I've never tried requesting a lot
of histories. I'm using 'spgn' to download a specific player. I thought
the limit was 100.
Do you know anything about what happens after than 100? For example, if
you wait 5 mins, can you get another hundred quickly? I've found that
changing the rate to about 1 every 70 seconds seems to be OK, but that
is a lot slower than the 1/second or so before the 100 is reached.
ICC has this incredible resource -- millions of FM/IM/GM games where titled
players try out new ideas. Also a ton of games where a titled player plays
an untitled player. These kinds of games are enormously instructive for
most patzers. But YOU CAN'T GET AT THEM! ICC puts so many limits on its
search and download capabilities that this resource is virtually unusable.
Also, I think there is a lot to be said for getting them from weaker
players too. There are plenty of resources for GM games, but less so for
weaker players.
A version of ChessDB
http://chessdb.sourceforge.net/
I hope to release in the next week has the ability to download from
specific players from ICC, so can be used for any player - not just GMs.
It will put them directly into the database (same format as Shane's
Scid). The code works - screenshot he
http://www.althorne.org/chessdb/webs...ics-window.png
but I want to make the downloads a bit more robust before releasing a
version.
Interested parties can check out the database with CVS. Doing so on a
UNIX/Linux box should be as easy as
$ cvs -z3
-d
chessdb
$ cd chessdb
$ ./configure
$ make
$ su
# make install
Then this is on the Tools - Downloads - ICC
Seems such a waste.
Yes, like you I feel that better searches and more sensible limits would
be useful.
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