Hello and Happy New Year to everyone.
I use SCID because it is the only program or chess database that runs on
Linux.
I do have ChessBase running in a virtual environment, but I don't use CB
for my daily work. (e.g. analyse positions, learning Openings)
I use SCID to create clean pgn files that I can then use on Lichess or
ChessBase.
I just installed the latest Flathub version of SCID.
Unfortunately, LC0 doesn't work at all for me under Kubuntu 25.10.
The error message is “Connection was unexpectedly terminated.”
All other engines (Stockfish in all versions, PlentyChess, Dragon
Komodo, Phalanx, etc.) run stably under SCID. What do I need to do to
get LC0 running under SCID?
I would like to express three wishes:
1. I would appreciate it if the select marker could be changed directly
in SCID from SCID--Property to ChessBase so that I don't have to rewrite
main.tcl with every update.
2. I support the request that SCID should not only display the best move
in red when calculating variations with an engine, but also display the
first 4 variations with arrows graded according to their ranking (as in
Lichess).
3. When searching for a position in a database with multiple games
(e.g., opening database), is it possible to display not only the main
variation of the individual game, but also the variations that follow
this position in this game as a selection?
I didn't understand how the extraction of pgn data (notations) and the
conversion into independent games works (polyglot?). I need help here,
preferably in German, on how to turn sub-variants of a game that is part
of a large database into a separate game in this database so that these
variants are also displayed in the tree.
Bye Frank
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Am 07.01.26 um 04:02 schrieb Fulvio via Scid-users:
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
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