performance decreases because I
>have a DB with a lot of info and training exercises !
What about using just a flag to mark that category/subcategory is available
for the game?
(In fact, I still don't believe flags
hat is thought in a course about database concepts.
As a human, I prefer something that works to something that is elegantly
designed, but doesn't work.
It looks to me like we are trying to find a General Solution to Chess Database
instead of just doing something that is rea
proved easily (even by correcting typos in single
game). From time to time, they would be merged into single Scid database.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace.
It's the best plac
automatize pdf generation is interesting.
There are some more modern and better-looking LaTeX chess classes for Xetex
too.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace.
It's the best place
I noticed a strange behaviour in recent Scid versions. When I change desktops
in Linux/KDE from Scid desktop and back, popup chessboard is displayed. This
is quite awkward - maybe it can be fixed?
--
Michal Rudolf
icky window. In my case it was board popup window, normally
triggered by middle click on the PGN window.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW!
Studies have shown that voting for
the search is repeated at higher depth to avoid effect
of horizont.
Probably the most improvements can be done with 4. - removing all the obvious
tactics (recapturing piece, moving king from check when ahead in material)
can
t in CVS? How can I test it?
--
Michal Rudolf
-
Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW!
Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project,
along with a healthy diet, reduces your potenti
me depth? If so, it would make sense to
use fixed time instead.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW!
Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open source project,
along
The ratio of reasonable exercises is quite high if:
* we look only for winning moves (let's say >1,5); positions with drawing
moves are hardly useful
* moves found at depth=2 are often too obvious
--
Michal Rudolf
-
to separate database
(which would be best), an option to omit blunder check will be nice.
Also, why not use human-readable string? Let's say:
D Tactics (difficulty 6) 20... Kh8! 26. dxe5 +/-
One more questio
e) should have played a move with a score of 1.91,
>but he played something at 4.38, hence the expected move to find for white
>should be at this latest value.
So, this won't find tactics which actually happened in the game and without
blunder on opponents part?
--
Michal Rudolf
-
osition drifted to a lost one, which means the score should have
>reflected this for several moves.
I am not sure I understand. So, in the second case tacitcs will be ignored?
--
Michal Rudolf
-
Sponsored by: SourceForge.net C
Pascal Georges, niedziela, 13 lipca 2008:
>> I am not sure I understand. So, in the second case tacitcs will be
>> ignored?
>Yes.
Isn't it possible to still add it? It seems a waste of resources to miss such
tactics - are there any reasons for skipping it
ered lost for a few moves, but there is only
one winning line which we have to find.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW!
Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open so
y won game).
Rybka is not suitable for the task anyway, as it is too slow at tactics.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW!
Studies have shown that voting for your favorite open s
ally copy those positions into separate DB, I
will manually sort a few hundres of games, we can find our good examples
ratio then.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW!
Studies h
Is there any way to remove some games from clipboard. It is useful, when
selecting games for some purpose.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
Sponsored by: SourceForge.net Community Choice Awards: VOTE NOW!
Studies have shown that voting
games by GM ? It
>certainly depends upon the target audience of such exercises.
I use fixed 6 ply search for finding candidates and 9 ply to verify them and
this gives nontrivial (sometimes difficult for me) exercises with some 7
seconds pe
Pascal Georges, wtorek, 15 lipca 2008:
>2008/7/14 Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
>> Is there any way to remove some games from clipboard. It is useful, when
>> selecting games for some purpose.
>
>It is not possible. A workaround is to use a "real" dummy
hat apps which handle multiple files should take care of deleting obsolete
files as well.
Average Unix user is probably capable of doing it, but I think an average
Windows user is not.
I think application should be as easy to use as possible, avoiding duplication
is not the most important principl
Scid to get rid of "File/Open..." as
>well.
Do you think all the features you don't use should be removed from Scid?
--
Michal Rudolf
-
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's c
there any other
easy way? Is it:
1. Open my Computer or Exporer
2. Find database directory
3. Select appropriate files (how should user know which files are relevant?)
4. Remove them
5. Confirm
I find this not only more difficult, but also more error-prone.
--
Michal Rudolf
---
ocedure "makeAnalysisWin" line 236)
invoked from within
"makeAnalysisWin 1 0"
(command bound to event)
BTW, maybe it will be better to use F2 to stop/start engine if engine window
is open. It can be closed anyway by Alt+F4, so I
y tristate, it will mean: start/stop engine (opening engine window if
necessary)
--
Michal Rudolf
-
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge
Build the coolest Linux based application
mplicated to me : the same key has different behavior.
>Maybe shift+F2 is a better shortcut for starting/stopping the engine (and
>after a quick glance it seems an available shortcut).
Sure, I am happy with it.
--
Michal Rudolf
ritten in C(++), so the port
>should really be straight forward.
May not be trivial for multiprocessor version.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challeng
essing proper mode (UCI versus *board) of course, but
this requires a bit more work.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge
Build the coolest Linux based applic
checksum changes.
This does not need to be perfectly secure and impossible to hack. The only
important thing is that a beginner. who does not understand what UCI or
*Board protocol are, is still able to add a new engine downloaded from the
Internet.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
ed as xboard - surely this isn't
better than doing a proper guess? Power-user can adjust it later, although
most users will probably prefer UCI.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move D
ly necessary in times of poorly written xboard engines. I think
recognizing UCI can be done in a few lines. User just selects executable and
Scid runs it, sends 'uci' command and check the response. This way, we will
know eng
e them in scid would be a great asset! Please consider adding
>this enhancement.
ChessX has support for online EGTB. Maybe it can be used in Scid as well?
--
Michal Rudolf
-
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Mo
Alexander Wagner, czwartek, 21 sierpnia 2008:
>I never worked that much on the issue, but is there probably
>another provider or just a common interface one could sit
>upon?
There is, if I remember correctly.
--
Mich
that uses the same protocol, though.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge
Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes
Gra
andom positions with up to 6 pieces,
>but maybe specialised positions are more suitable. Pete?
Probably just finding real game positions will be nice. Alas, Scid cannot
search by number of pieces - material/position searches in Scid are seriously
limited compared to CB/CA.
Henk van Lingen, czwartek, 4 września 2008:
>There is no way in scid to display a FEN-string of a position in scid,
>right?
Wring.
Right-click on the area below the board and choose right item.
Or just press Ctrl+Shift+C to copy current FEN to clipboard.
--
Michal
Pascal Georges, piątek, 5 września 2008:
>Just to animate things : when do we switch to Tcl/Tk 8.5 ?
>
>No debate please, no explanation, just pick a choice :
[x] Now, for next release (planned in a few months)
--
Mich
fficient way.
Why not? It is enough to make this move on the board and analyze it then
(preferably with fixed depth)
Rybka Aquarium does it for any engine:
http://chessok.com/?p=518#more-518
--
Michal Rudolf
-
This SF.Net
nces.
It seems strange that all translators made the same mistake. Maybe there is
some other reason?
--
Michal Rudolf
-
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge
Build the coolest Li
window below
the board?
BTW. Maybe you may consider making information panel optional? Most
information is duplicated in PGN window anyway. And panel title may be used
for basic game information (players, year, result)
--
Michal Rudolf
-
nel in separate window.
--
Michal Rudolf
-
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge
Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes
Grand prize is a tri
amples.
5. Sorting engines by data ignores seconds, so, if I open some engine by
mistake, then choose another, the former is often still default.
6. Do I remember correctly that Tree window icons had some hints associated
before? They are not displayed anymore.
--
Mic
Pascal Georges, środa, 10 grudnia 2008:
>2008/12/10 Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
>> 4. When annotating games using short annotations, variations often lack
>> numerical or symbolical evaluations. Let me know if you need some
>> examples.
>Yes, give exam
lt.
>Fixed (hope so). Note this was not a clock precision bug (it already handles
>seconds).
No, it looked like was due to the way the configuration was saved.
Thanks for the fixes.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
SF.Net email is
database, so it will be
difficult to send you an example.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The future of the web can't happen without you. Join us
Tree Window is not clickable for me now. Is that intentional?
--
Michal Rudolf
--
SF.Net email is Sponsored by MIX09, March 18-20, 2009 in Las Vegas, Nevada.
The future of the web can't happen without you. Join
Is spelling correction broken in CVS (it does nothing here, leaving both
Morozevich, A and Morozevich, Alexander)?
If so, how serious is the bug?
Also, what about updated rating lists? The website offers April 2008, while at
least July 2008 is available elsewhere.
--
Michal Rudolf
Joost ´t Hart, czwartek, 26 lutego 2009:
>On Thu, 2009-02-26 at 00:58 +0100, Michal Rudolf wrote:
>
>Hi Michal,
>
>> Is spelling correction broken in CVS (it does nothing here, leaving both
>> Morozevich, A and Morozevich, Alexander)?
>
>Not that I am aware of, no.
"opp. B",// $153
>"same B",// $154
>"||",// $190
>"doubled P", // $191
>"o-o", // $192
>"oo",// $193
>"D",
lpful. Usually, the CD should contain a file with
>encodings.
I giess it should be enough to check a few CB databases converted to PGN to
see what is used. Some characters are on the list, but I have never seen
those.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
hat I can get. ;) I've not seen some
>of them myself, but that usually does not mean that ther's
>not someoner around using them.
Ok, maybe I wasn't accurate enough. Of course, we should implement all the
NAGs if possible, but if there is a discrepancy
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Apps built with the Adobe(R) Flex(R) framework and Flex Builder(TM) are
powering Web 2.0 with engaging, cross-platform capabilities. Quickly and
easily build your RIAs with Flex Builder, the Eclipse(TM
Pascal Georges, piątek, 27 marca 2009:
>2009/3/27 F. Charly
>
>> I tried posting but got : "Message body is too big: 41286 bytes with a
>> limit of 40 KB"
>> Isn't 40 KB a bit small?
>
>It is a limit set by sourceforge.
If I remember well, it can be
It seems that comment editor bug reappeared. When browsing the game with
comment editor open, all the comments/NAGs are copied. This is extremely
awkward as it requires closing CE after each move.
--
Michal Rudolf
and an ugly workaround (with
>drawbacks).
Ugly and slow. As Tcl is advertised to have a full Unicode support, I will
suggest to try a 'proper' approach. Let me know if I can help.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
This
used like both
zugzwang symbols - there is only one symbol and random NAG from 3*2 possible
is used by annotators.
If so, it may be better to stick to Chess Informant symbols and use them as
used by most annotators - with just one symbol.
--
Michal R
itely keep the difference.
As we talk about NAGs, what about improving NAG shortcuts/editor? I mean that
some NAGs should replace another instead of being added at the end. Obvious
sets are:
! !? ?! !! ? ??
+= =+ -/+ +/- +- -+ = ~
Entering one of thes
What is the empty window shown by sc_remote?
Is it possible to get rid of it?
--
Michal Rudolf
--
The NEW KODAK i700 Series Scanners deliver under ANY circumstances! Your
production scanning environment may not be a
d to Scid.
>I think the first message notifying about the forking was fine, but the
>last one counts as noise for me.
I agree that this list is not the place for such notification (except for the
first one)
Maybe the best solution will be to add an information ab
r the button was useful, though. Maybe some keyboard shortcut
to delete final moves can be added then? (Something like Shift+Delete comes
to mind).
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Cry
mplement any external database
> support (for example any kind of SQL like MySQL or PGSQL)?
Hello,
Such support is planned for ChessX (http://chessx.sourceforge.net) although it
is not implemented yet. Native database format will be implemented as SQLite
database.
Fulvio, wtorek, 20 października 2009:
>Michal Rudolf wrote:
>> Such support is planned for ChessX (http://chessx.sourceforge.net)
>> although it is nto ot implemented yet. Native database format will be
>> implemented as SQLite database.
>
>I think that scid'
It seems that for some reasons configured Informant values are no longer saved.
As far as I remember they were saved before.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Developer Conference in SF, CA
is
Pascal Georges wrote:
> They are saved for me.
Seems I was wrong. They are also saved here, but not restored when I reopen
Informant dialog.
I checked with LANG=C, so this is not a locale problem.
--
Michal Rud
Dnia wtorek, 27 października 2009 o 18:24:07 pgeorges napisał(a):
> Michal Rudolf a écrit :
> > Pascal Georges wrote:
> >> They are saved for me.
> >
> > Seems I was wrong. They are also saved here, but not restored when I
> > reopen Informant dialog.
> >
On Wed, 28 Oct 2009 andrei raevsky wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Does anybody know of a application running under GNU/Linux which could
> convert a database in CB format to either PGN or, better, SCID4 database
> format?
Does Wine+CB Light/CB/Fritz count?
--
9 flag (the code
uses non-standard long constant values). There are still a lot of suspicious
warnings though.
Resulting binary crashes on Scid, but works on ChessX. I didn't check why.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crys
ion?
In time of finding best moves (I have examples where Robbolito finds the best
move 5 times faster)?
I am not saying this is not possible, I would just like to see any kind of
proofs.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crystal Re
or: suffix or operands invalid for `bsf'
> bits.h:15: Error: suffix or operands invalid for `bsf'
Try to disable -DHAS_POPCNT flag.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal
t somebody can just take
the disassembled, unstructured code from a few engines (without any code and
documentation) and merge it, achieving a better performance.
If this was that easy, why not take a bunch of best Open Source programs and
merge them, creating the best open source engine? That should
l
limit profit from these databases
> I'd suggest not to go that way directly but to do the loop over some easily
> portable commandline tool helping other apps as well.
> SS: Command line wrapper is good as other projects can use it as well (e.g.
>
these lines are being parsed by Scid which takes CPU time and make it
unresponsive. If this is a case, maybe that can be fixed by avoiding to parse
analysis line if it is the same as previous one?
--
Michal Rudolf
.
It is very good now. Thanks!
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
trial. Simplify your report design, integration and deployment - and focus on
what you d
of the game).
The reason is PGN standard does not support it.
The only workaround is to re-add last move and add variations there.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2
2009-11-14 14:57:37, Benoit St-Pierre:
> Why not add the variations just before the result, then ? I am quite
> sure PGN supports that.
Can you write a sample PGN?
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crystal Reports hand
h3 39. Kd2 Kb5
> 40. Rd6 Kc5 41. Ra6 Nf2 42. g4 Bd3 43. Re6 {A simple draw.} 1/2-1/2
But, I asked for PGN sample with a variation just before the result. Sorry if
that wasn't clear.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
ook - as I couldn't imagine how do you want to attach a variation without
main line move.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
trial. Simplify your report
yed, and 1...d5 is just a variation so far:
>
> [White "?"]
> [Black "?"]
> [Result "*"]
>
> 1.e4 ( 1...d5 ) *
And now - is it allowed by PGN standard? My guess is no (variation is su
Dnia wtorek, 17 listopada 2009 o 14:27:14 Pascal Georges napisał(a):
> No, because what you're asking for is done by the window manager, not
> Scid (I don't know any Tk command to go to fullscreen mode).
http://wiki.tcl.tk/12506
at the end of the page
I didn't test it,
I noticed that Scid saves starting black move in the variation in PGN as:
17. ... Qc7
Isn't
17... Qc7
a standard?
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Re
ce]Qc7
So, it is one dot for white move, three dots for black move.
Scid uses both, separated with space.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
trial. Simpli
so very easy to enter a
> wrong move.
The same happens to me.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
trial. Simplify your report design, integration and
2009-11-26 13:34:34, Pascal Georges:
> 2009/11/26, Michal Rudolf :
> > 2009-11-26 11:29:50, Pascal Georges:
> >> Options -> moves -> Add spaces after moves number.
> >
> > I wasn't talking about spaces, but about spurious dot.
> >
> &g
ion is formed from the integer
giving the fullmove number with three period characters appended.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Let Crystal Reports handle the reporting - Free Crystal Reports 2008 30-Day
trial. Simplify your report d
acters appended.
I think that is preferred format and, as far as I know, the one used by most
chess software. The space before the move is optional, so it can be added if
the 'Space' option is enabled.
Moreover, I don't think the space between one and three dots
problems.
Today I run an automatic analysis of all 26 games in a small database. Though
no other database was open, Scid used up to 600M during the process (and after
it).
It also crashed three times, mostly near mating positions but this is probably
unrelevant
id or perform random
database/move changes.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience,
a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing.
Attend in-depth sessions from yo
ut tracker - this will make things a lot easier to
manage.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience,
a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing.
Attend in-depth s
On Thu, December 3, 2009 22:51, Benoit St-Pierre wrote:
> What kind of tracker would be useful for the actual project?
Any that is used by both users and developers ;-)
Seriously, why not try the one available on SourceForge?
--
Michal Rud
to understand the differences.
Pascal, does it mean that Tcl uses internal memory management, so for the
system some memory looks as used, even though internally it is marked as free?
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Join us December
oo big for many small objects.
> I only switched to Tcl API on Pocket
> PC because on PC you usually don't care about a small exra amount of
> RAM wasted.
A small amount doesn't matter, I think only leaks matter - if those are fixed,
eve
ourse, this would point to some problems with Tcl memory management.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
Join us December 9, 2009 for the Red Hat Virtual Experience,
a free event focused on virtualization and cloud computing.
Attend in-d
ring the heap map. So it does report in case of
> release of a buffer that was "never" allocated (which is at least
> suspicious; note that this does not occur in Scid).
Did anybody try using some advanced memory-checking tool with Scid (l
ill be six.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Verizon Developer Community
Take advantage of Verizon's best-in-class app development support
A streamlined, 14 day to market process makes app di
please have a look that all works well and as expected.
Looks great (tested for some tournaments from 90s and for some 2009
tournaments).
Maybe you can also fix Elo change calculation (which is very inaccurate in
Scid, moreover, there were some changes to
t turned out that Scid was not written in that
separation in mind, hence it would require a lot of work just to make that
separation possible.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage
helping with ChessX development. Some work can probably
be shared between two projects.
Also, there are a lot of tasks for non-programmers.
--
Michal Rudolf
--
The Planet: dedicated and managed hosting, cloud storage, col
We don't even agree within Scid - I can't stand docked mode, others
> probably don't live without it :-)
I can't stand _Scid_ docked mode, but that is because of Tcl docking mode
limitations.
--
Michal Rudolf
---
2010-02-25 04:24:47, Mark Morss:
> Hello, everyone. Since this is my first post I will introduce myself.
> I'm a USCF National Master and Senior Master of Corr. Chess.
Are you the Mark Morss, the author of the great "Hard Chess" column?
> My reason for posting: I have done the obvious things to
2010-02-27 18:55:15, Alexander Wagner:
> However, we don't have better icons. I'm the wrong one to draw them
> (they'd be even worse than the current ones) and we would need quite
> some specialised icons so you can not just reuse the usual say gnome
> stock icons which are available in decent qual
1 - 100 of 216 matches
Mail list logo
