Ben St-Pierre wrote:
Hello Fulvio.
My most common searches are by position, by rating, and by ECO. What
you implement is enough for most of my searches. Thanks!
I have a question and a request.
The question is this one. In your video, there are five icons in the
game list window. Your video shows the use of two of the icons. What
do the three others do?
Hi Ben,
- the first (from top) button show an integrated "database switcher"
window that allow to copy game to and from databases, import or export
pgn, etc.
- the second button show a search toolbar, that allow to perform
advanced searches, similar to the "search" menu.
Why these two buttons are necessary and we can not just use the old
"database switcher" window or menu search?
Originally scid was not created as a normal database from which you can
extract the data across multiple queries.
Now instead it behaves like a typical SQL database, from which you can
select the data filtered and sorted in a different ways.
Example:
1) Open your database
2) Open a gamelist, search Carlsen games and sort by date
3) Open another gamelist, search 1. d4 d5 games played by Kramnik with
white, sorted by average elo
4) Export the games to a pgn file... Problem! Which games do you want to
export? Carlsen or Kramnik's?
That's why the two buttons are necessary: if you want to export Carlsen
games click the first button in the first gamelist and select export
(and use the second gamelist if you want to export Kramnik games)
- the third buttons store/recall the layout (which column to show,
column width, sort criteria) of a gamelist. A tutorial video:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lWRBVzcnRmY
The request would be to see how we could filter through many ECOs.
The idea would be to filter a whole repertoire in one go. That is,
when I download TWIC, I would like to be able to filter it according
to what I play.
So the request is to have many ECO searches linked with OR's
operators. It also echoes what the Repertoire used to do. So perhaps
there's already some code in SCID.
I honestly never understood ECO: some older chess friends tried to
explain it to me (our circle subscribed to Chess Informant), but I can
not figure it out.
Scid have a "using search file" that honestly sucks: perhaps we could
improve it.
Bye,
Fulvio
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