5.2: Spellchecking Games

A common database maintenance task is correcting names of players, events and sites. Scid provides two useful tools for this task: the Name Editor for manual name correction, and Spellchecking for automated correction.

Name Editor

The Name Editor provides a way to change all occurrences of a particular name (or date) in the database. Or, if you prefer, you can apply the change only to games in the filter (after you have set the filter with a certain search) or only to games in the same tournament as the current game.

For example, you can change the player name "Kramnik, V" to "Kramnik, Vladimir" for all games in the database, or change the event name "Open" to "Weekend Open" only for games in the current tournament.

Note that there is not (yet) any way to undo a Name Editor change, so use this maintenance tool with care. (An undo mechanism for the Name Editor is planned for a future Scid version.)

Spellchecking

An even more powerful tool than the Name Editor is the Spellcheck feature. If you have a Scid spellcheck (.ssp suffix) file loaded, you can (from the Maintenance window) spellcheck player, event, site or round names for the current database. The standard Scid spellcheck file is called spelling.ssp and it should be loaded when you start Scid. If not, you can open it with the Load Spellcheck File... command in the Options menu. The spelling file contains information about correct and incorrect spelling of many names. It also contains other player information including FIDE titles (GM, IM, etc), birthdates and nationalities.

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