Re: [Scid-users] A Simple Step to Help TWIC (or any other Ad Site)

Wouldn't it make more sense if - for games downloaded from TWIC (and other similar sites) - game information presented in Scid simply contained clickable link (maybe just in Source tag)? This would give some intended visits...

Re: [Scid-users] Run Houdini in SCID with Wine?

Larry Isaacs larryisa...@mindspring.com writes: I'm using Ubuntu 8.04 LTS 32bit with Wine 1.2.2 and am able to run the Houdini 1.5a exe. For the Command setting, the exe path (containing no spaces) works for me. It depends on system configuration (whether given Linux runs .exe's via wine by

[Scid-users] [patch] Letting sc_import read pgn names from sdin

Below there is a patch for sc_import.tcl which adds an extra way to run this command. If run with sc_import somedatabase - the command will read the names of PGN files to import from standard input. Why? -- First, it makes it possible to do things like find . -name '*.pgn' -a

Re: [Scid-users] Use-case: entering games played by kids

You can't. Scid enforces the laws of chess here and does not accept invalid moves. In your case this is actually a drawback, in most others it is definitely an advantage. Well, one need not exclude the other. Enforcing laws normally but having some force invalid move option/button/whatever

Re: [Scid-users] Use-case: entering games played by kids

As a sidenote bonus, here is the game I discovered some time ago. Both players are currently GMs (white was not at the time the game was played, he was a very talented youngster then). The game was played during European Rapid Chess Championship 2006. Note moves 10, 26, and 31 :-) [Event

[Scid-users] Use-case: entering games played by kids

I am just using Scid to enter the games my kids played today on their first slow time tournament. Unfortunately, kids are not perfect. And scid could help me a little bit more than it does... Trouble: a) Opp of my son castled under check at move 7. My son missed this and they happily continued

Re: [Scid-users] PGN Problems

use this as compilation routine) -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | I have a very small head and I had better learn | http://mekk.waw.pl | to live with it and to respect my limitations, || rather than to try

Re: [Scid-users] Some pgnscid problem (memleak?)

to add some check for it, even bare refusing to load such a game... -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | A complex system designed from scratch | http://mekk.waw.pl | never works and cannot be patched to make

[Scid-users] Some pgnscid problem (memleak?)

... -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | The goal of a software process is the | http://mekk.waw.pl | production of software (...) Intermediate || artifacts are not the goal (Booch,Martin

Re: [Scid-users] FYI

-compiled Toga (the same version). -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | The cost of a few uncorrected non-critical | http://mekk.waw.pl | human errors is less then the cost imposed || by a process that tries to prevent

Re: [Scid-users] email chess time stamping

cares much about it when move emails are considered. Some cleanup is needed mostly while submitting the game score, -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | Working overtime sucks the spirit and | http://mekk.waw.pl | motivation out of a team

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

are not installed together, but we use sth like /usr/bin/scid (or /usr/games/scid) and /usr/share/scid/data/ -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | The cost of a few uncorrected non-critical | http://mekk.waw.pl | human errors is less then the cost

Re: [Scid-users] Scid on OS X

The point of this file was to make it possible to build scid in Linux packaged way, where binaries and data are not installed together, but we use sth like /usr/bin/scid (or /usr/games/scid) and /usr/share/scid/data/ Given that books and bases directories are now user configurable,

Re: [Scid-users] Scid versus other databases

So, it looks like all positions are cached? Or just those up to some move? Up to some move. IIRC it is configurable while building the direct tree, the standard is up to move 20 or so. What about matching games? Are they displayed immediately, or does it require some processing? Some

Re: [Scid-users] slightly ot Fritz

I found that the last version that works painlessly in wine is Fritz 8, (V6 and 7 are also working). From V9 onwards a recent version of DirectX is required and I did not fiddle into this. Enginewise V7 and V8 can handle the Fritz engines up to V9, from V10 onwards CB seems to have changed

Re: [Scid-users] CBF support for Scid?

I remember a discussion on the issue for chessx and there is no doc about how to read cbh. All DOS-tools that use it just call a DLL from ChessBase (had a detailed discussion of the issue with Stefan from Shredder, why he does not support cbh in [EMAIL PROTECTED], and about data formats in

Re: [Scid-users] Publishing info about CVS repo?

But note that it must not necessarily compile and stuff like that. (Well cvs ;) That's obvious. BTW: it could make sense to place cvs tags while building releases (cvs tag scid-3_6_19b2 etc) -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | I

[Scid-users] Publishing info about CVS repo?

Well, I decided to take a look at development version of scid2 in CVS and ... had noticeable problems to find it. The website is not mentioning CVS repo in any way, bah - it explicite says that there is no version on sourceforge. My suggestions: - add a sentence about CVS repository on the

Re: [Scid-users] Play on internet

. -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | If Staff, Scope and Schedule are all fixed, | http://mekk.waw.pl | managers will have no options, other than || prayer. (Martin

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 support?

Point is: currently scid really refuses every illegal move, simply cause scids input methods are bullet proof in the sense that they do not allow for illegal moves. It can not be there what can not be there ;) This is both good and bad. It is good, as it makes scid perfect tool to verify

[Scid-users] Chess960, huh?

? -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | You have the right to produce quality work | http://mekk.waw.pl | at all the times. (Beck

Re: [Scid-users] Converter from cbf | cbh to pgn | scid ?

Can wine run cb-light? I tried, but failed, it just crashes immediately (in the same environment in which I run Fritz8 without problems) -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | Systems built by humans are always subject | http

Re: [Scid-users] Setup Scid 3.6.20 on OpenSuse 10.3

, after you do 'make install' you will either overwrite that scid, or install your in separate location. In the latter case you must be careful with your PATH settins to pick correct scid... -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | If Staff

Re: [Scid-users] Setup Scid 3.6.20 on OpenSuse 10.3

of something (make, gcc, tcl libraries, tcl development headers, ...). At least this was the reason of all failures I've seen so far. Error message you get should make it possible to guess what you lack. -- -- | Marcin Kasperski

Re: [Scid-users] This bad save game dialog....

[Save and continue] [Discard changes] [Back to the game] But [Save and continue] is too dangerous to be default. Now it is far too easy to make some random changes when playing through the game and pressing Enter means old game is lost forever. Discard is also dangerous, imagine

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics

the point...) -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | We want to know as early as possible whether | http://mekk.waw.pl | the project will succeed. Thus we attack the ||high-risk areas first. (Martin

Re: [Scid-users] This bad save game dialog....

] -- -- | Marcin Kasperski | I have a very small head and I had better learn | http://mekk.waw.pl | to live with it and to respect my limitations, || rather than to try to ignore them. (Dijskstra

[Scid-users] prefix, graphics (was Re: RC3)

- ./configure: it would be nice to implement --prefix ./configure BINDIR=/usr/local/bin SHAREDIR=/usr/local/share/scid let you configure the same. Of course one can set those two variables somehow when --prefix is given, but considering scid configure is written in TCL, I am not volunteering

Re: [Scid-users] RC3

- Analysis: It would be worth considering to run the analysis of a game from then end to the start. This allows the engine to reuse internal hash tables. Stefan told me that at least within Shredder this improves the analysis quite a bit (...) Currently engines don't clear their

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

* Probably one could shorten the engines names in the comments? The legend coud be given in the Annotators field. Something like [Annotator DeepShredder 11 (A), Toga II 1.3.1 (B)] and then later on A: +0.35, B: +0.27 +1 ;-) But it would be even nicer if this

Re: [Scid-users] RC3

Exactly. While moving back, you have calculated and deepened lines which actually happened in the game. While moving forward, you have many lines which are no longer relevant. You don't imagine the tricky stuff I had to do to make Scid analyse a whole game, recursively taking into account

Re: [Scid-users] Scid 3.6.19 released

On windows, use Scid 3.6.19 without setup (just unzip anywhere). On Linux, compile and run anywhere. But the scid configuration files will be common between the 2 scids (not a big problem). Also worth noting, that bases are binary compatible, so you may open same scid base in new scid, modify

Re: [Scid-users] revisiting the issue of abandoned Scid

Let's let Scid-pg take over the Scid project at SourceForge and end this silly feud. Bah, as far as I know Pascal would like (and wanted) to do it. SourceForge refused. - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc.

Re: [Scid-users] Scid and non-ascii world?

As far as I know Scid always uses UTF-8 encoding for PGN files. It is a bit broken on export, but that's probably Tcl fault, not Scid's. Wow. Nice. It even seems that utf-8 encoded pgn file is properly imported via pgnscid and exported back via scidpgn. The only thing which does not work is

Re: [Scid-users] Scid and non-ascii world?

PGN is Portable Game Notation, a standard designed for the representation of chess game data using ASCII text files. Well, this is false for long, long years. Plenty of games annotated in German, French, Russian, Polish, Hungarian,

Re: [Scid-users] Scid and non-ascii world?

I am not sure Scid uses UTF-8 : if I enter white player as ùà for example, it will be exported in PGN as 2 chars (not 4). I suspect locale can be of some importance here. Try export LANG='fr_FR.UTF-8' or sth similar... It even seems that utf-8 encoded pgn file is properly imported via

Re: [Scid-users] Scid and non-ascii world?

PGN is Portable Game Notation, a standard designed for the representation of chess game data using ASCII text files. Well, this is false for long, long years. Plenty of games annotated in German, French, Russian, Polish, Hungarian, I can put a comment in french, in Ascii, with

Re: [Scid-users] Question on SCID versions

I’m curious as to what the differences are between version 3.5.x and 3.6.1 of SCID. Is it mostly bugfixes, or are there significant functional enhancements? Well I do not know. But there are a LOT of important enhancements between scid 3.6.1 (which is also ancient) and scid 3.6.18 (the

[Scid-users] Scid and non-ascii world?

Well, maybe I open pandora box, but ... more and more often I happen to meet PGN files containing non-ascii characters in comments. Sometimes PGNs are UTF-8, sometimes use different native encodings (I'm Polish so latin-2 is frequent, I read Russian so ... PGN you can download from

Re: [Scid-users] (patch) scmerge may take merged files from standard input instead of command line

I integrated your patch, and added your example and more details in the usage() function. But correct me if I am wrong, continue should be break here : No, no, no, it should be continue! This is just semantics of handling possible empty lines. In case of continue, we just ignore empty

[Scid-users] (patch) scmerge may take merged files from standard input instead of command line

The following patch (written against scid-3.6.19-rc2) adds new way of running scmerge. One can now write scmerge newbase - and supply the list of merged bases on standard input (one by one, separated by newline). I wrote it after getting 'argument list too long' error once more (not that

Re: [Scid-users] On multiple trees

* Best Games windows keep opening too, cluttering GUI Mhm, I agree, this is somewhat irritating. I would prefer to open tree window only, and just open best games manually when I want it. * Tree window is not open immediately, so sometimes user doesn't know what is happening This probably

Re: [Scid-users] ECO file problem

Dnia wtorek, 11 września 2007 22:46, Michal Rudolf napisał: I have a problem with 3.6.19rc1: ECO file isn't loaded properly on startup. It seems to be always falling to default, so if the file is in other location, it has to be loaded manually every time. There was some ugly hardcoded default

Re: [Scid-users] ECO file problem

Try to load ECO file from custom location (via Options menu), save current configuration and restart Scid. It doesn't work correctly here. Ugh, it seems that we have incorrect order. The instruction which sets default ecoFIle was moved and landed after options file loading. So scid loads

[Scid-users] [patch] Handling directory hierarchy better on Linux, without spoiling the current state on Windows

The attached patch (due to my laziness it is in two parts as I just maintan it in this way, apply both in order) changes scid so it complies to the typical Linux way of organising data files (data files are separate from the binary, all paths in use are set-able by ./configure switches) - but it

[Scid-users] Funny things in the source distro

I think that the *source* distribution would be noticeably smaller, if it did not contain the following files (the list below according to the scid-3.6.18.tar.bz2): Makefile Makefile.bak engines/Phalanx-XXII/book.lrn engines/Phalanx-XXII/position.lrn engines/crafty-20.14/book.lrn

Re: [Scid-users] [patch] Handling directory hierarchy better on Linux, without spoiling the current state on Windows

So, for people that don't issue a correct : ./configure BINDIR=$HOME/scid SHAREDIR=$HOME/scid (...) Scid will fallback to the classical directories, and this cannot hurt. It should not be necessary, if somebody issues just ./configure it is equivalent to ./configure

Re: [Scid-users] Opening tree easier? Multiple tries at once? Disabling tree sync temporarily?

It would be nice to have sth like File/Open Tree or File/Open as Tree, what would do just the same - open selected database, open it's tree, and lock it - while keeping the currently loaded game active. You are right, and also that seems pretty easy to do (...) (keeping fingers

[Scid-users] Opening tree easier? Multiple tries at once? Disabling tree sync temporarily?

Well, a few separate suggestions regarding the tree window. (background) I am using scid to keep reference database(s) (split by eco) and search for opening ideas 1. Open the tree easier. Let's say you are viewing some game, and would like to take a look at reference tree with respect to

[Scid-users] Problem with too large games - faced once more

I just once more got scid failure while importing PGN file due to the large game. This time it is reasonably mainstream case - ultra083.pgn file from UltraCorr database (http://www.chessmail.com/shopcart/catalog01.html, this is according to many the best correspondence games archive available).

Re: [Scid-users] Problem with too large games - faced once more

As there is an overflow with a game, my guess is that the games before this one should be imported (at least I think so, if I remember well the code), Yes, they were. In fact this is how I found troublesome game in large file (the first after last imported) Concerning a game of 200 kB, I

[Scid-users] Z0 nullmove notation?

ChessAssistant uses Z0 (Z and zero) notation for null moves (also in generated PGN files). I sometimes want to import to scid something exported from CA and fairly frequently face Error: Unexpected symbol: Z0 Scid by itself uses another null move notation (--). Let it be, but maybe PGN

Re: [Scid-users] Some shortcut (Ctrl-S) which replaces if possible, otherwise saves

It would be nice to have some keyboard shortcut, which 'just saves' the current game. By 'just saves' I mean what most people usually mean while saving document, game, whatever: if there were previous version, replace it, if not, save it as sth new. So one can press this Ctrl-S and be