Question

[Rebel]

http://rebel13.nl/pgn4web/guess.html

If you only have the information of the moves played in the above link is there an easy way (tool) to find the players?

[Ajedrecista]

Hello Ed:

http://rebel13.nl/pgn4web/guess.html

If you only have the information of the moves played in the above link is there an easy way (tool) to find the players?

Sure. There is something called Opening tree mode at ChessOK:

http://chessok.com/?page_id=352

Which is an online database of games. I see some drawbacks to this database:

1.- It is online, so it is not suitable for offline use. If ChessOK goes down, there is no database anymore.
2.- It is manual, so you must go through the game move by move.
3.- It could not be complete sometimes (probably games until some point in 2009).

It looks like this right now:

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Move    Eval.	Games	W/won	B/won	Draws	W/ELO	B/ELO	Year
e4      +0.11	1910226 39.2%   32.6%   28.2%   2875    2875    2009
d4      +0.11	1195931 39%     29.5%   31.5%   2875    2870    2009
Nf3     +0.11	295119  37.9%   27.5%   34.6%   2851    2851    2009
c4      +0.07	256054  38.4%   29.6%   32%     2851    2849    2009
g3      +0.04	26473   38%     28.9%   33.1%   2847    2812    2009
f4      -0.07	24001   35.6%   40.2%   24.3%   2780    2813    2009
b3      -0.07	14775   35.9%   35.6%   28.5%   2821    2788    2009
Nc3     +0.07	10190   38.6%   35.4%   26%     2758    2849    2009
b4      -0.18	9866    37%     39.4%   23.6%   2870    2840    2009
e3      +0.04	2870    32.1%   47.5%   20.5%   2805    2670    2009
d3      -0.04	2137    35.3%   39.7%   24.9%   2820    2683    2009
a3      +0.00	1655    36%     41.5%   22.5%   2758    2680    2009
g4      -0.29	1249    38.7%   44.8%   16.5%   2648    2719    2009
c3      -0.07	1081    35.2%   39.5%   25.3%   2609    2704    2009
h3      -0.04	266     31.2%   45.1%   23.7%   2511    2682    2009
h4      -0.18	193     39.4%   41.5%   19.2%   2532    2461    2009
Nh3     -0.22	174     32.2%   46.6%   21.3%   2520    2527    2009
f3      -0.33	97      33%     50.5%   16.5%   2421    2474    2008
a4      -0.07	69      30.4%   43.5%   26.1%   2479    2498    2009
Na3     -0.15	41      48.8%   26.8%   24.4%   2446    2437    2009
GE              1       0%      0%      100%    2178    2186    2008

That is, around 3.75 million games (3,752,468). GE should mean 'game end' or something similar.

I went through the game you posted and it says:

1-0, Alekhine Alexander A (RUS) - Keres Paul (EST), Munich (Germany), 1942

Here is the link of the game at ChessGames:

http://www.chessgames.com/perl/chessgame?gid=1013485

I also went through the first game of the WCC 2010 (Topalov 1-0 Anand) and it is not in that database. There might be other free online databases up to date.

Regards from Spain.

Ajedrecista.

[Guenther]

https://chess-db.com

I think the database above has the same (and more features) and is always up to date. I recommended it on the website of my chess club.

Guenther

[Rebel]

Correct, it's too simple. How about the following two.

http://rebel13.nl/pgn4web/guess2.html

First one is easy

[Guenther]

Correct, it's too simple. How about the following two.

http://rebel13.nl/pgn4web/guess2.html

First one is easy :wink:

Ok. Then the second one :)

https://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id ... 2512.20240

[Rebel]

Correct, it's too simple. How about the following two.

http://rebel13.nl/pgn4web/guess2.html

First one is easy

Ok. Then the second one

https://chess-db.com/public/game.jsp?id ... 2512.20240

Very good!

There goes a new feature I had in mind, right down to the toilet

[MikeGL]

Correct, it's too simple. How about the following two.

http://rebel13.nl/pgn4web/guess2.html

First one is easy

Hi Ed, I was able to search it too via setup of final position in Scid DB.
I loaded your MillionBase, thanks to your posted link here., then clicked the Search Menu > Current Board... (or Ctrl+Shift+B),
and within 4 seconds the complete details of the game is displayed.

More than one way to skin a cat.

[mjlef]

Correct, it's too simple. How about the following two.

http://rebel13.nl/pgn4web/guess2.html

First one is easy

Hi Ed, I was able to search it too via setup of final position in Scid DB.
I loaded your MillionBase, thanks to your posted link here., then clicked the Search Menu > Current Board... (or Ctrl+Shift+B),
and within 4 seconds the complete details of the game is displayed.

More than one way to skin a cat.

Why would anyone want to skin a cat?

[Ovyron]

Why would anyone want to skin a cat?

I just looked it up.

Apparently, the original phrase was "there are more ways to kill a dog than hanging", then it became a cat choked to death with cream...

So, you would want to skin a cat because you'd rather do that than hanging a dog.

[Rebel]

http://rebel13.nl/pgn4web/guess3.html

Third try, more hard to look online for, but famous game.