Games Explorer

I was wondering how often the database would be updated?

Originally posted by cashthetrash
I was wondering how often the database would be updated?

I know for a fact that I, as white, have 22 KG games played, but for some reason it says that I've only got 8 in the explorer (It did a good job of showing my losses though 😛), any reason why this would happen? I hope this hasn't been adressed in this thread, I skimmed the entire thing, but didn't see anything directly pertaining to my question.

-Chris

Originally posted by tmetzler
I would like to urge the Various Opening Themed clans to work on adding notes to the guide. Those of us not able to get access to your private forums may find it enlightening.

Simply wonderful. Simply RHP, thanks for this wonderful job guys! 🙂

One minor proposal: Show the record (white/draw/black) for the actual position as well. I just saw it (on the previous board/position) and I see all records for important next moves, but not the "sum" of all those games. I want to know how good this position is.

Originally posted by Gatecrasher

I find I only have 644 games listed out of about a 1000. For what reason other than banned players and less than 5 moves would games be excluded?

i like it

Originally posted by buffalobill
Indeed, this is a very nice feature.
Like Gatecrasher, my game listing is also odd. I've got about 385 rated games but just under 220 in the DB.

Originally posted by zebano
I believe that both players have to be above the given rating threshold. Therefor people like Exy (banned, rating = 500) should never show up, even in a game against Gatecrasher.

I think this is a great new feature for this site. Two things that would make it more powerful though are 1) if we could search a position using a FEN and 2) if there were less than a certain amount of games listed in a given position (say 1000 games), we could view those games.

I also found an apparent bug
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Searching master games, when I entered the following line in:
1. e4 e5 2. f4 exf4 3. Nf3 d6 4. d4 g5 5. h4 g4 6. Ng5 h6
( http://tinyurl.com/y4ye5r ) there were 2 games listed with Nxf7 with black scoring 100%.

However, when I clicked on Nxf7 there was only one game listed (http://tinyurl.com/y3jroa).

EDIT: Maybe not a bug. Perhaps in one of the two games, white resigned in this position?

Originally posted by Chris
We've just put up an initial version of the new Games Explorer.

It is not yet available from a link on the site but can be accessed via

http://www.redhotpawn.com/gamesexplorer

It is populated with games up until the start of November 2006 and about 200,000 Grandmaster games. It also has personal databases for all subscribers (also including all their ...[text shortened]... ttention should it show itself to be something that people would like to use.

Thanks,
Chris

Originally posted by XanthosNZ
It's a little strange. Viewing the starting position of my games (me as black) a single game starting Nc3 between Exy and myself is listed. However if I were to click on my black games with that move already played I apparently have no games played in that position.

So, if Exy shouldn't be showing up (as he was banned and also has a rating of 500 why is ...[text shortened]... to the position after c5 was played and so on. Would be easier than going back move by move.

I'd like to be able to turn off the search, so that I could input 10 moves, and then search from there, as its quite slow when it searches the database each half move.

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The games explorer is malfunctioning? I can review 1900+ but not 1400+, nor my own games.

1. e4 (or any other move) returns "Sorry, this line is not available."

Weird.