On 05/05/12 20:43, Joost 't Hart wrote: > On 05/05/12 11:46, rzan...@fastmail.fm wrote: >> I have complained about this a long time ago but apparently it is >> intended. >> It doesn't make sense to me but I think the authors think this feature >> let you >> check JUST the opening for a bunch of games without annotating the rest >> of the >> game. > > Yes it is, and it does. > You forget to mention one thing, the "use book" checkmark and the file > name in the box below it. > > If you remove the checkmark, no "opening errors" can be reported and the > engine will start calculating from the start position - regardless of > whether this is the Initial Position at move 1 or not. > > The "Find opening errors" option is quite useful to test a bunch of > games against a certain opening repertoire. This means that (only!) this > repertoire is/should-be in the "book" that you specify. In this case the > word "error" is debatable. Indeed it is. > > I do agree that the option is not useful if you only have a small and > lousy book that attempts to cover all "correct" opening moves. > In this case (only) the book checkmark can be enabled to save some - > usually nonsense - calculation time by the engine in the beginning of > the game. > > Hope this clarifies, > Joost. > >> >> I have noticed however that when you disable "Find opening errors" you >> still get >> opening errors, only it will continue annotating until the end. So I'm >> good with this. >> So the only bug here is that the menu/options are misleading and that it >> is not >> possible to really disable checking the opening, i.e. annotate every >> single move >> from the beginning. However with all the opening theory perhaps this is >> no longer >> required and you can always check a move by hand if you think you came >> up with a >> novelty :) >> >> Hope that helps. >> R. >>
It sounds to me that "Check for opening errors" means "stop when out of book." Doing that for a collection of games would be much quicker than analysing the whole game for all of the games. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has changed and how IT managers can respond. Discussions will include endpoint security, mobile security and the latest in malware threats. http://www.accelacomm.com/jaw/sfrnl04242012/114/50122263/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
