Hi!
Just some suggestions I came accross while looking at the
recent releases.
- Analysis
* I think it would be good to store the engines score also
in "short comments" format. I find the rating graph quite
helpfull.
(One could even consider drawing more than one line if
analysis of several engines is available.)
* Probably one could shorten the engines names in the
comments? The legend coud be given in the Annotators
field. Something like
[Annotator "DeepShredder 11 (A), Toga II 1.3.1 (B)"]
and then later on
A: +0.35, B: +0.27
* Removing the comments/variations should also clear the
annotator-field. E.g. I ended up with something like
[Annotator "DeepShredder 11, DeepShredder 11, DeepShredder 11,
DeepShredder 11"]
while trying several settings in the annotation dialog.
- eMail Manager
* Something I'd look for would be the eMail Manager.
Currently I use xboard for email chess, which works pretty
well though I've to import the games later on in scid
anyway. The current handling of email chess within scid
IMHO would need some improvement to be usable. A possible
way could be to speceify a "correspondence chess database"
where all games go to that are
[Event "Email correspondence game"]
[Site "NET"]
[Mode "EM"]
Now one would have to find which games within the database
need to be replaced. For the key cmail (that is xboards
mail feature) uses:
[CmailGameName "jj-aw2007-02-22"]
Addionally it stores the mail addresses of the opponents:
[WhiteNA "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"]
[BlackNA "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"]
Probably one could use that in scid as well for the mail
handling? Using the cmail fields would lead to seemless
integration with cmail.
* Concerning the current comment (by Shane) about scid not
beeing able to read the users mailbox: this is
absolutely not necessary. Its enough to define scid as
handler for the mime-type in question and call it with
the attached png-file as parameter. So there's no need
to implement imap/pop or whatever support in scid.
I could imagine scid to check the pgn header if a pgn
file is passed on the command line and check for the
above. If it finds the fields in question it could
trigger the sync against the local correspondence chess
database.
--
Kind regards,
Alexander Wagner
Universitaetsbibliothek Ilmenau
Langewiesener Str. 37
98693 Ilmenau
Tel.: 03677/69-4521 , Fax.: 03677/69-4617
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