> The only reason I still have to use those other Scid derivatives is HEADER > SEARCH.
I'm developing Scidb since five years - software development is a very, very time-consuming work - and only since short time I'm reading that some users like to use Scidb as a full-value chess database. I'm grateful for such statements. > Is there something equivalent in Scidb that I'm missing? No. > When will Scidb get this? Is planned for next year. At first I have another major task, a customizable window layout. The engine window should be insertable into the main window, and some more extra windows are required for: - Multiple engines (opponents view for example). - Opening books - Polyglot (.bin) and ChessBase (.ctg) are already implemented, but not yet tested. - Windows for search results. But in fact position/header search is partially implemented yet (about 50%). And the whole design of the application is already prepared for cascading searches, and for searching in background (threads). > The engine setup dialog offers a max memory (hash) of 6144 MB. I'd like to > use more than that since I got 12 MB ram on my machine. Many chess engines > (e.g. komodo6, stockfish) support more. Scidb's stockfish version (one of the newest repository versions) does not support more than 8192 MB. The dialog offers the minimum of the supported memory (here 8192) and the currently free memory of your system, but rounded upwards to a power of 2. I should use the available memory instead of free memory, but I don't know yet how to determine this (it's not the amount of total memory, because some memory is reserved, and you cannot use the whole rest of the memory, the system would be constantly swapping). Will be fixed in a later version. > I'd like to limit multi-pv to just 2 variations. Default is always set to 4. Will be offered soon. > In the engine analysis window I'm missing information about TB-access and > kn/s. Would be nice to see that too. I didn't know that some users likes to see this information. I will think about how to show these values, the current design of this dialog should not be affected. One of the most important aspects in GUI design is simplicity.
