Joao Rita wrote:
Hi!
Recently I've been extensively using the correspondence side of scid and
I found some shortfalls, not that I'm complaining, in actual fact I'm in
no way tempted to go to any other tools, although I have to use ECTool
for a few of my games... (IECC doesn't use Xfcc...)
Hey, you could even make requests :) Implementation however will depend
on my (quite limited) spare time.
1. How far off is SCID from being able to print positions?
This is particularly nice if you want to transpose to a physical board
and analyse the position.
Let me put it that way: I've some good reason to come to this part as
I'll do some postal play I think later this year. Now this postal stuff
requires, ahm well, a postcard. I'm still working on this issue and how
to do it but have some ideas. This would also include printing a
position on that very postcard. I'm still sorting out if and how it can
be done. (Do you have a nice cls for a CC postcard in LaTeX? There is an
old BDF-package, but this seems to be broken.)
2. How easy is it to export to Latex but setting it in such a way
diagrams from certain positions within a game are displayed?
I've the rework of some of the LaTeX-stuff on my agenda already.
Still, what you want is actually available right now. Just add the D NAG
to the position you want to show. That is go to the position in
question, hit Ctrl-E for the Comment Editor and just add the D as NAG
value. Once you export to LaTeX every position with this NAG will give a
nice diagram in your export.
3. How easy is it to filter only games which your up to move?
It is trivial for Xfcc and actually solved already. In the
correspondence chess setup dialogue you have a checkbox for Only games
I have the move. This checked only those games show up in the CC game
window.
The issue is a bit tricky for email games as I don't know who has the
move here and who you are. In a way.
That is it has to rely on that fact that you got all games in your Scid
Inbox and opened them once for them to get synced against the base.
However, IF your base is current it is easy and done as well. You can
just do a header search for the special player !mymove. Given you set
your player names correctly (Options/Chessboard/My Player names) this
will filter all games that are not finished and where the player
matching either of your player names has the move. It also keeps track
of you being white/black so you might want to add the Ignore Colours
option in your header search.
BTW: you can use the special player !me to filter all of your games in a
given database.
4. How far away is SCID from being able to receive PGN games and send
out replies like ECTool?
I don't get what you mean here. Current CVS has actually some relay
feature built in which currently works for ICCF Webchess relays. Is this
the functionality you refer to? I don't know ECTool, I'm afraid.
5. Last question, how easy would it be for me to potentially get
involved and help with the implementation of these points?:)
Actually quite easy. First step done. At least if there is an open issue.
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