Hi Pascal,

Just a general suggestion:
There is no need to take a defensive position here. I really want to 
help making scid a better thing than it is, and I simply report what I 
do not understand or like.

That's all.

More info below.

Cheers,
Joost.

Pascal Georges wrote:
>
>
> 2009/3/9 Joost 't Hart <[email protected] 
> <mailto:[email protected]>>
>
>     Hi,
>
>     [cvs - Linux]
>
>     1) Set the cursor in the PGN window at the one-before-final
>     position of
>     a game (that extends beyond some known opening line).
>     2) Open an engine. I use deep shredder 11 (UCI), for that matter.
>     3) Open the annotation dialog, enable book usage and opening error
>     finding (e.g. 12) and start the annotation.
>
>     Now scid will annotate (only) the last move of the game, and will
>     politely add "Move out of book<played-move>"
>
>
> You checked "use book", no ?

Yes I did, I said so (3, above)

>  
>
>
>     The remark "Move out of book" is weird in this case. 
>
>
> Why ? You can have a book until move 60.

Yes, you can, but if I start annotating a game somewhere in the end 
game, this is simply a silly remark. It is not caused by the size of the 
book, but by the fact that scid simply assumes that we are in-book at 
the moment the analysis starts. Wherever in the game that may be.
One could argue that if the user does not start annotation from game 
start, he should disable "use book". Indeed, one could.

I prefer to see the out-of-book remark only after I have been in-book 
somehow before that time, that is, when I leave book.

>  
>
>     Less relevant is
>     that there is no [space] between this string and the <played-move>.
>
>
> I don't see that.

I do. I guess you did not replay my use case.

Under normal circumstances the out-of-book string is followed by some 
book alternative or even a nifty engine variation. The code for the 
latter two is responsible for adding the [space].
In this case, the book alternative is not there (of course not, we were 
never in-book anyway) and a variation is not available if the move 
played is the one that is prefered by the engine.

Hence: <Out of book><move>

>
> Pascal


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