thanks for all your work! Steve A <stevena...@gmail.com> writes:
> Hello, > > Lots of things happening - though the list is quiet. > Most relevant first... Thanks to Gregor who has made some overdue changes to > our player and tournament finders. They were two widgets Shane left in an > ordinary state, but > are technically better now. When i find the time.. a month or two ?.. will > make a new release. There is also a heap of small changes, and a decent > speed-up of engine PV > processing. > > But more exciting is Britton and i have progressed the Chess 960 support to a > decent working stage, and Britton has forked the project. This is the > sensible thing to do, as > there is now a new database format, at the moment, sa960, and i am too busy > to do this. It is quite solid i think :) Brittons plans for more variant > support are a little bold > imho, but good luck :) His announcement is at bottom. The DB format is > currently in fact si4, but because of move encoding differences, it needs > renaming (which is handled > by the GUI), as loading the new format into old Scid will throw lots of > undefined behaviour and errors. > > And Gregor is also doing a totally amazing rewrite of the slow and buggy main > tk text widget. This will eventually make it into mainstream wish i think; > but for accomplished > hackers, they may try compiling it now, using wish 8.6.5 with this tarball > (sometimes updated) overwritten into tk. > <http://scidb.sourceforge.net/tk/package/tk8.6.5-revised.tgz>. > In Scid, these improvements are most evident when handling very long > games/lines in the pgn window. > > cheers, Steven > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Britton Farrar <brittonfar...@gmail.com> > Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:56 AM > Subject: Re: [Scidvspc-users] patch for chess960! > > ,,,,, > > https://github.com/brittonf/scid-vs-variants > > ..... > > My plan is crazyhouse, then bughouse, then capablanca, done in such a way so > you could play capablanca-bughouse-960 if you wanted, even though there > probably is no > servers or engines to play with for that. Probably will be by the time i am > done with it though! > > Thanks again for your help. > > cheers > britton > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Scidvspc-users mailing list > Scidvspc-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scidvspc-users > -- :: Igor Sosa Mayor :: joseleopoldo1...@gmail.com :: :: GnuPG: 0x1C1E2890 :: http://www.gnupg.org/ :: :: jabberid: rogorido :: :: ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ Scidvspc-users mailing list Scidvspc-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scidvspc-users
