Overview
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The Game Archive Program is an effort to capture the games being played at
the MCC for a number of uses. Some of these uses are:
- Historical archiving
for posterity. This is especially important for games among Masters
and Experts. The MCC regularly contributes games that qualify to the
"New England Masters Game Archive Program" whose purpose it to
create and preserve a
permanent record of the careers of our New England Masters. This
Archive is periodically published to the Massachusetts Chess Association's
(Maca's) web site and is available for download there.
- To provide material for the Game
Advice Program. The Experts involved with that program are seeking
out questions from players about their games and look through the games in
the Game Archive for games that would serve as good examples for analysis.
- To provide material for the
Experts involved with the Weekly Group Class program to look through for
themes or positions they think may be of value to discuss in class.
- To give you, the member a chance
to see what others are playing and what is happening in the games around
you at the club.
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Ways to Assist
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Entering games submitted
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We are constantly requesting players, especially
those in the open section, to submit their game scores to us for inclusion
into the Archive. The bottle neck and most labor intensive part of the
Game Archive program is to get the games from the score sheet into some
electronic form so that we can get it into the Archive. Often, the
score sheets are difficult to read which compounds the situation..
Some people have found value and enjoyment in transcribing higher rated
players games. The process of entering the games into a program
involves you in the game and makes you wonder what is coming next.
What is particularly nice is that you could ask the players about their
games later when you see them at the club. |
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There are different levels of help that can be provided here. Any of
these would be of great value to us. They are listed from least to
most valued. |
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- Enter the game score into email and send it to the Game Archive
Program director
- Enter the game score into something as PGN and then email it.
- Enter the game score into Fritz, possibly with Fritz having analyzed
it for us first and then send it via email. Fritz has a send game
function so you don't have to worry about the particulars. Be sure
to always save the games into a Fritz database first though. You
could also send the "CB/Fritz" Archive or "Backup" file which would be the
entire database of games you've entered. The file type is .cbv
- Enter the game into ChessBase and send it via its email feature.
You could also send the "CB/Fritz" Archive or "Backup" file which would be
the entire database of games you've entered. The file type is .cbv
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Submitting your own games
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The easiest way to help is to simply submit your
own games into the collection. This provides material for the for the
Experts involved with the Group Class or Game Advice programs to look
over and possibly select to analyze for all or parts of your game. |
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