Difference in quality between CORR games and Practical chess

[budfit]

Hi James,

you are right the correspondence chess databases are sold separately in both cases (CB and CA). However that does not mean the main database does not include the correspondence chess games. There are many of these corr games inside and that is the point.

E.g. in CB Mega look for tournament type or event and see the corr games there too.

But again the discussion here is something more profound, whether the ICCF games (corr) should be mixed with OTB games. And there is a special post about this here on this forum and on all major chess forums. If you read so far the answers, most of the chess players favor it.

Fact is CB Big/Mega includes corr games (to which extent I can't comment but to what we filtered, it's many)
Fact is CA Huge includes corr games and again many
OM includes corr games and also many

And all three offer a specialized ''Correspondence Chess Database'' which is sold separately (in case of OM this is not sold separately, as it is included in the annual membership on the page)

Best Regards,
Alexander Horvath, SIM ICCF
http://www.openingmaster.com

[James Constance]

Alexander

Megabase 2008 - using search tournament, any text="corr", I counted 34 correspondence games, 29 of which belonged to two team radio matches. Sorting the tournaments by type I found 17 games.

I would not describe that as many in the context of the 690,000 games of their Correspondence 2009 database.

If I am missing something, please let me know which search you used and the number of games found.

With Hugebase, a substring search of event for "corr." yields 66443 games, which is a large proportion of the 376000 games in Corr2008, assuming they are duplicated there. Indeed, there may be more - I think one would need to combine the bases and dedupe for an accurate figure.

James

[James Constance]

Rather bizarrely a quick search of random games marked corr. in the Hugebase did not find them in the Corr2008 database, so they may not be duplicated. A combine and dedupe would be needed.