Hi, OK, I now understand that engine.cpp is just for quick analysis when showing legal moves etc.
Analysis.tcl has an interesting routine called addAnnotation but I'm not sure if its invoked by the game annotation feature or just by the Add Variation button. In any case I can't see any timeout. Does anyone know where the game annotation timeout is? Or how it works? Watching Chesstempo.com annotate games to a depth of 13, I've noticed that it can take anywhere from a fraction of a second to eight minutes to annotate a move to depth 13. So, its going to be difficult to ever choose a good timeout for annotation -- the annotation will always be poorest in the most interesting parts of the game.. Once I have Scid annotating to a fixed depth, I'd like to annotate certain long games to a depth of 19. That could take days (or even weeks) for a long game if I used time-based annotation, but only hours (maybe even minutes) with fixed depth. Cheers, Steve Prelvious Message --------------------- Hello, I'm trying to modify my copy of Scid to stop annotating each move when it reaches a depth of 13. i.e. I want to give it a large "time between moves in seconds", say 999, but let it go on to the next move when it reaches a depth of 13. There are surprisingly few programs which allow that kind of depth-based annotation, a notable exception being chesstempo.com's java-web-based control of your local engine. A novel idea. But that's kind of a pain (e.g. it doesn't check an opening book for the first few moves like Scid does) and I'd like to do everything in my beloved Scid (Mac). As an initial hack, I modified Engine::Think to use an instance variable, depthCounter, to keep track of the current depth, and then added a check for depthCounter >= 13 to Engine::OutOfTime(). However the annotating still carries on merrily past my depth of 13. I think I'm not understanding how the annotation works. Can anyone point me in the right direction? Cheers, Steve ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The demand for IT networking professionals continues to grow, and the demand for specialized networking skills is growing even more rapidly. Take a complimentary Learning@Cisco Self-Assessment and learn about Cisco certifications, training, and career opportunities. http://p.sf.net/sfu/cisco-dev2dev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
