LibraryBot allows searches by one or two names, ECO code, year, and library
name. You can use one or all of these paramaters in a search. To
search by a name, or the names of two players who played each other, type, for
example,
tell LibraryBot fischer petrosian
For the ECO, year, or library searches use arguments such as,
eco=C5, eco=C55, lib=mysystem, year=195
A space indicates a new argument so be sure
to type each paramater with no spaces. Parameters cannot be
abbreviated.
The lib argument, for example,
tell LibraryBot lib=linares
lists games from libraries that have linares in their name. Read further down
about the libname argument that lists liblists.
Because names are not standardized in LibraryBots database,
LibraryBot matches name fragments to names. So
tell LibraryBot fischer
will match "fischer,r", "fischer,r." etc.
tell LibraryBot name=fischer
to see all the names that match fischer in the database.
Library names vary from year to year, such as,
tell LibraryBot lib=linares
which brings up linares2002, linares2001, etc. Fragments
are designed to work there as well and you can just type
tell LibraryBot lib=linares
to bring up all linares libraries.
In a two name search, if the second name starts
with a "!", it will exclude games that include both fragments in
the same name. For example,
tell LibraryBot hort !short
will find games
with a name that matches the fragment hort, but excludes short.
In addition to the above parameters there are two other
parameters that can modify a search. The first is result. result
can be set to 0, a loss, 1, a win, 2, a draw, and 3, a win or loss
but not a draw. You also can do result=w or result=b for games won
by white, for the "w" setting, or games won by black, for result=b.
tell LibraryBot shirov kramnik result=1
will list shirov's wins against kramnik. Use result=0 for shirov's losses.
There is also a color argument that is similar to result.
tell LibraryBot kasparov color=w
for his games as white (win, loss, or draw).
This can be used with other searches such as result. For example,
tell librarybot kasparov color=w result=0
lists his games as white where he lost.
Examples
tell LibraryBot kasparov karpov result=3 -- any wins, i.e not a draw.
tell LibraryBot eco=c5 result=b -- blacks wins at that eco
tell LibraryBot fischer result=0 -- fischers losses
Unfortunately most wc-libs and a few hist-libs were uploaded around
1998 with an interface that uploaded the year as year of upload
(mainly 1998), not the year of play. The best way to search for these
libraries is with the libname argument described below. For example,
tell LibraryBot libname=karp f
The third modifier paramater is sort. The other two are color and
result. sort helps scroll through long search lists quickly. sort
can be set equal to numbers from 1 to 9 and will start the search list
display at the beginning of that ninth of the game list. This may sound
tricky, but here is a simple example. In a 900 item list the argument
sort=7 will start at the beginning of the seventh ninth or 600. 700
is the eighth ninth and 800 is the beginning of the ninth ninth in
a 900 item list.
You can also now just search for liblists that match a fragment you
give. For example,
tell LibraryBot libname=linares
would give you clickable liblists that contain the phrase linares.
Add an "f" to see finger links as well. For example,
tell LibraryBot libname=karp f
To see famous chess books collected in libraries that are now searchable, use
tell LibraryBot books
LibraryBot updates to add games from the latest event libraries daily. Use
tell libraryBot libstat
to see how many games and library accounts are databased at a given moment.
Use
tell LibraryBot recent
to see a list of the last 25 or so libraries
that have been added to the database.
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