I've released revision #574.
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Highlights
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- Scidb is now supporting chess variants: Crazyhouse,
Three-Check, and Antichess (Suicide, Giveaway, and
Losers).
Please note:
- Only Scidb's format .sci is supporting chess variants.
- It is not possible to mix variants in one database
(the Clipbase and PGN files are exceptions).
- If you need some games for testing you may download
<http://scidb.sourceforge.net/misc/FICS-variants-2012-01.pgn.gz>.
Alternatively download games from <http://www.ficsgames.org>.
- The opening tree is not yet working with variants, this
is in planning stage.
- The variant Bughouse is in preparation. In fact Bughouse
is the main reason why I've implemented chess variants.
- Use engine Sjeng for analyzing chess variants (except
Three-Check).
- Tournament table: print table to HTML file.
- New piece sets: "Free Staunton" and "Virtual". Peter Wong
kindly gave me the permission to use Virtual Pieces graphics
from <http://www.virtualpieces.net>.
- New board themes: "Blue theme", "Staunton" and "Virtual".
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Currently in development
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- Faster start-up of Scidb. I will change the player info file,
currently in ASCII, to a (pseudo) memory dump.
- Adding "Add move" and "Add variation" to analysis window.
- The opening tree should work with chess variants. This will
take a while, the preparation of opening tables is time
consuming (help is welcome).
- Implementing the support of Bughouse games.
- Download/upload/update databases via the internet.
- Tiled window layout: see
<http://scidb.sourceforge.net/misc/twm-board.png>
for a simple example.
- Implementing chess variant Three-Check in Crafty.
- Supporting attachments of documents to a database. The
main reason is that Chessbase databases have attached
documents.
--
Gregor Cramer
email: <gcra...@gmx.net>
