Thomas Malloy wrote: > Hi, > > Are there any scripting or batch processing functions in scid? > For example: > > 1. You have a pgn file of thousands of chess positions from games, but > not the games themselves. Say like a file containing tactical positions > from famous games. You want to want to search for those positions in > your normal big database because you want to play through the games > completely and not just solve the positions as problems. > But you might not want to do this individually for each position. It > might take a long time. > Can that be scripted or batch processed? > > Basically a for next loop that selects the start position of tactical > position from the pgn file, then searches for the position in the big > database, and saves it into a new database. > > Can that be done with scid? > Thanks > > I believe that is not possible. However the script sc_tree.tcl (in subfolder scripts/) does something similar. It's not simple: 1) Modify the sc_tree.tcl script to take a FEN string instead of a list of moves (sc_game_startBoard is the function to set the current board) 2) sed your source pgn file to get a list of FEN strings 3) Do a bash script that feed each FEN string to the modified sc_tree.tcl script
However, I'm not sure i completely understand your particular use case, because for me it will be simpler to: 1) open the pgn file 2) open the big database as tree Bye, Fulvio ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Virtualization & Cloud Management Using Capacity Planning Cloud computing makes use of virtualization - but cloud computing also focuses on allowing computing to be delivered as a service. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfnl/114/51521223/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
