Dear Fulvio, First of all Happy New Year to everyone and again thank you very much for your contribution in this project.
It's been almost a decade that in my chess club I'm presenting/teaching Scid as a reference tool for managing and analyzing games, studying openings and profiling players. Within this context, the Tree Window and the Opening Report, are the most valuable features offered by Scid even if the current chess world is completely different from ten years ago. Today, the current offer of tools, apps and platforms have created a very stimulating landscape. Nevertheless Scid still represents a great solution for chess enthusiasts that do not want to rely only on online resources. The problem with open source projects like Scid, where a long standing project was developed by a relatively small community, is that often some features are no longer used (or not used at all) because poor documentation, buggy or obscure implementation. Finally, if I may express a "very nice to have" wish for Scid I would say: the ability to show multiple arrows according with the number of lines evaluated by the engine. Bye D. Il giorno mer 7 gen 2026 alle ore 04:02 Fulvio via Scid-users < [email protected]> ha scritto: > Happy New Year to everyone. > I asked an AI (Claude-Opus) to modernize the crosstable code to C++20. > While reviewing it, one line struck me: Copyright 2001 Shane Hudson. > In 25 years, so many things have changed: online play on Lichess or > Chess.com, live video streaming of games, ... The days of ICC feel far > away. > Scid was the best alternative available on Linux, my main use was to > prepare before a game against an opponent. I used three opening trees > and gamelists: my opponent's games, games with Elo > 2200, and all games. > But I still remember the frustration: calculating statistics took > forever, it wasn't possible to move around the board until it finished, > and there was only a single gamelist (I used 2 temporary databases as a > workaround). > Now that I only play the occasional online game, I use Scid solely to > review games from major events, like the recent World Blitz > Championship. Although Lichess offers web Stockfish, I prefer the faster > local version. I also have a small database where I copy and annotate > the games I like the most. > There are features I don't use and haven't been updated in years, such > as the FICS module or training functions like solving tactical puzzles. > They're simply not comparable to what Lichess offers today. > I'd like to understand what your uses of Scid are. Knowing which > features are still valuable would help me with the cleanup of code that > has become obsolete. > Bye, > Fulvio > > > > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users >
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