If you use the search mask in Kommodo to look for specific players, the program only selects from the database those entries is which the player’s name begins with a capital letter. But when you play games on the chess server or get game data from the internet, then a lot of players’ names are written with a lower case letter at the start. Is there any way to collect from the database entries for players whose names start with a lower case letter?

 

The search function in the program or ChessBase considers that all names start with a capital letter. If, e.g., you are looking for "peter", the program changes the search criterion to "Peter". This procedure actually offers a lot of advantages when you are searching for names.

 

But, since there are a lot of games in, e.g., the database MyInternetGames with names in lower case, there must be some way to home in on these and select them.

 

 

Solution: In your search, enter a * in front of the names. So in the aforementioned example, you should enter simply “*peter” into the search mask.