In the meanwhile I think I've found a solution for game copy, it seems to be possible to do the game copy without any modification of the game data, but it requires testing. This is the status:
1. In the copy the meaning of a dynamic link will change to a static (textual) link automatically, but only if the destination is another database. A game copy in the same database is preserving the dynamic link. 2. Copying back to the original database will not change back the meaning, only the original game (and the copies done inside this database) will have the dynamic links. I think that these restrictions are realistic. The game links are an additional tool for database authors, not more. Such links may be very useful for specialized opening databases, for example. The author can point to other games, the user can use the link directly instead of searching in the matching game list, and any copy of the game to another database is preserving the characteristic (player names, date, length, result, and possibly more) of the referenced game. Many years ago I've published an opening book, and due to my experience I know that normally a reference to another game is highly preferred instead of replicating the moves of this game. I'm working on a second edition of this book, but this edition will be a Scidb database; in fact this is the only function of Scidb for myself. And that's one of the reasons why I have this idea with game links. But I had the first encounter with this idea in Scid's users forum some time ago, and nobody has answered this request. Gregor
