Bogdan Burlacu wrote: Hi!
> I'm playing chess for almost 14 years now, and been using > chess software starting with the earliest fritz and > chessbase version; anyway, my point is, you only need a > database for two things: opening preparation and > tournament preparation against a specific opponent. I agree with Pascal that the usage is quite a bit broader. > The only reliable way of gaining chess knowledge is by > studying chess books. Actually, a good database is almost an electronic chess book. (There could be extensive annotations within the games.) And it could be pretty handy while reading a book to have the games on some portable device. The main reason why I add [Ref] header fields that allow me to select the contents of a specific book from my current reference db and export them to my Palm. The Palm is acutally a bit easier to handle on train than a chess set. > It IS indeed useful to be able to reference a game in an > unique way but you can also do that by combining some > specific info like eco code, year, name of the player(s). I'll not open that again, but it is a real difference. Its the same difference as between a bibliographic record and a DOI. > However as soon as I finish up with my exams I will be > able to help with anything you should need - html for the > site, databases, screenshots, etc.. Sounds great! :) Welcome to the club :) > I do have some suggestions: > > - maybe budle up the chess12 latex package along with > scid: this way latex opening reports saved with scid can > be turned into pdf... on my gentoo linux I'm using rubber > for this (http://iml.univ-mrs.fr/~beffara/soft/rubber/) I have some strong objections against such things. Scid is a chess database and not responsible for setting up the system. Scid should, if it comes with a packaging system like debian or your gentoo, _suggest_ chess12 but it should not deliver it by default. I've also no problems with offering a download link for the package on the homepage etc. But you can not try to include all into scid. The next wish would then be to include pdflatex and we'd end up with a whole TeXLife and still talk about a chess database. (Ok, I'm a pretty debianish here, I'd even drop the engines and bases out of the current package and offer them seperately. But I'm here in the minority, I fear.) > - when I play a 'serios' game against Rybka (which runs > through wine) it seems that the 'permanent thinking' > option is not working, but I have checked with other > engines (fruit, toga) and with them it works just fine. I > can't figure it out :( Isn't there also a native version? > - the clock when playing games against engines in scid > would look so much better if it were a digital clock > instead of the current analog one I agree with you, but I see Pascals attachement to the analog ones. > - scid would look really awesome if it had prettier icons > for all the buttons - not I know I'm asking too much but I > think scid has the potential to become truly awesome They could surely be brushed up, I agree. And actually I'd suggest starting to oplish the GUI by brushing up them before a new TCL/Tk framework is required. ;) Unfortunately, I think the number of artists in the current community is a bit "limited", though we've quite some Mac fans here. (Therefore, I actually wonder a bit about no artists ;) -- Kind regards, / War is Peace. | Freedom is Slavery. Alexander Wagner | Ignorance is Strength. | | Theory : G. Orwell, "1984" / In practice: USA, since 2001 ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
