PS. in the meantime, are there any plans to create a system to sort out the 960 chess games by Starting Position?
I'm sure the staring positions are referenced already. Every position has a unique number?, I believe? Unless you mean something else.
Here they are:
Yes, I know that. this is not what I mean. :)
If you take a look here you will see it:
Chess960 Starting Position Index
Currently, in the PGN files, you don't include a specific text field [txt] to define the Starting Position number. Only it is included in the FEN code... however, at this very moment... and as far as I know, there is no PGN visor able to filter and sort by Starting Position a PGN database with games mixed together... as the one extracted here in chess.com or other places.
This is just an example:
[Event "Fischer Random/960"]
[Site "Chess.com"]
[Date "2009.06.30"]
[White "#######"]
[Black "@@@@@"]
[Result "1/2-1/2"]
[WhiteElo "1361"]
[BlackElo "1361"]
[TimeControl "1 in 3 days"]
[Termination "Game drawn by agreement"]
[Variant "Chess960"]
[SetUp "1"]
[FEN "rbqnnkbr/pppppppp/8/8/8/8/PPPPPPPP/RBQNNKBR w KQkq - 0 1"]
1.Ne3 c5 2.c4 Nc6 3.Nd3 b6 4.Qc3 Qb7 5.h4 h5 6.f3 Rh6 7.Rh3 e6 8.a3 a5 9.g4 hxg4 10.fxg4 Nd4
11.b4 axb4 12.axb4 Bd6 13.Rxa8 Qxa8 14.Nf2 Be7 15.g5 Rh5 16.Bh2 Qa4 17.bxc5 1/2-1/2
In bold, you can see it defined as Chess 960 game... and in the FEN you can find the Starting Scheme (which corresponds to the SP - 412)... however, as in the heading tags info it is not included I don't see a way a regular PGN visor can sort by a given SP.
In some sites I have seen they simply use the position scheme:
[Opening "BBQNNRKR"]
It might help to avoid mistakes about SP denominations (Specially #000, which is named #960 in some places... and 0 to 99 that can include 001, 099 or remove the 0s and taking into account it is text the interface will not recognise it)
Hi all,
Is there any system to download all the Chess 960 games archive in PGN at once?
(I mean, all the games played here in chess.com using that variant)
I see that you can download manually, user by user (you send the PGN file by email) all the games... but it would take ages and there is no way to update it periodically.
(I was creating a Chess 960 'database' and I am checking whether this would be possible as it would help a lot.... besides, I will have to figure out how to sort out all the games by Starting position and eliminate all those unvalid) :)
*This is not a DB with the purpose to create an Opening Book or similar, as for regular chess... I know that's completely out of hand right now and with not purpose. This is just to get enough games to create a "reference" for each Starting Position. giving examples of traps or possible lines to follow.
PS. in the meantime, are there any plans to create a system to sort out the 960 chess games by Starting Position?