Re: [Scid-users] Scid Enhancement request [SEC=UNCLASSIFIED]

2007-02-13 Thread pgeorges
Hi, What you're asking for is certainly feasible, but only in 2D for me ! I remember diagrams in Paul Keres' book on endgames and I helped (a very little bit) Hiarcs'author in the way Hiarcs handled endings because such diagrams are not that easy to code in a program. I personaly could never

Re: [Scid-users] Takeover denied - Let us move forward

2007-02-14 Thread pgeorges
You are 100 % about GPL, and I will of course stick with it. But understand my concern : Kirkby massively renamed Scid files and put (C) with his name on files he did not changed a single character. He made his best to prevent me from working on Scid despite many users would like me to continue

Re: [Scid-users] On tactics ...

2007-02-14 Thread pgeorges
Michal Rudolf a écrit : It is easy to find some examples, but not that much. And PGNs with solutions are even more rare. This is because of this I had to find a workaround : even for the mate exercises I could not put the solution because it is far from unique. So I let an engine do the

Re: [Scid-users] New Scid version released

2007-02-15 Thread pgeorges
Well, the problem seems to come from a PATH one : can you please try to change by hand the line 21 of scid exec tkscid $0 $@ with exec ./tkscid $0 $@ or add . at start of your PATH env var ? export PATH=.:$PATH And don't install any other Scid package to make things easier to debug. The

[Scid-users] clipboard base

2007-03-09 Thread pgeorges
Hi, Some users asked for an increase of the maximum number of games that the clipboard base can handle (remember this base is only in memory). So I set this max to 100.000 : the memory footprint of this base will be at most 20 MB, which will not be a problem on most computers. I personaly

[Scid-users] Scid 3.6.8 released : minor changes

2007-03-10 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I released an updated version of Scid at http://prolinux.free.fr/scid The changes are : - increased the max number of games in clipboard base to 1.000.000 (this should satisfy all needs with no bad side effect, at least I hope so) - clicking on a clock stops or starts it - the variations

Re: [Scid-users] Where to put analysis ?

2007-03-11 Thread pgeorges
=== with duplicated name gamesm etc, - Original Message - From: pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scid Users List scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Sunday, March 11, 2007 11:28 AM Subject: [Scid-users] Where to put analysis ? Hi, Now Scid can annotate a whole database, (all

[Scid-users] Scid and internet

2007-03-19 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I would like to discuss some extensions that can be made to Scid related to internet use : I see three use cases for Scid : 1. correspondence chess; 2. download of game databases; 3. play on internet. For correspondence chess, there are many chess sites offering this feature

[Scid-users] Scid 3.6.11 released

2007-04-12 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I released Scid 3.6.11 at http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/ Here is an extract of the changelog : - changed book handling : several books can be opened at the same time (in windows or for use by engines) - it is possible to play a serious game from current board position (and not necessarily

Re: [Scid-users] Game annotation

2007-04-19 Thread pgeorges
Michal Rudolf a écrit : That, as well as threshold, is engine-dependent. Crafty is usually using higher values, that is, +1 may not be much. On the other hand, for Rybka +0,7 may already be winning advantage. So, I suppose it is best to make it configurable. ok, I will make everything

Re: [Scid-users] Game annotation

2007-04-19 Thread pgeorges
Michal Rudolf a écrit : One more blunder that can be detected: - resigning in a good position - accepting a draw in a better position For the first case, this means to check coherency between game result and last position evaluation. For the second case, I don't think this is part of the

Re: [Scid-users] 3.6.14rc1 -- thanks!

2007-05-05 Thread pgeorges
Hi, Thanks for the feedback. I suppose you use Windows, as on Linux I never noticed problems that sometimes can be met on Windows. An explanation is that on windows Scid will not get any resources when an engine is running (especially if this is Rybka, and I don't know why). One problem with

[Scid-users] Scid 3.6.14 released

2007-05-08 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I released Scid 3.6.14 at http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/index.html The changes since 3.6.13 are : - added an option for PGN output : add spaces conforming to PGN standard. This will be reflected in every place PGN is used (PGN window, PGN export,...) - fixed a bug (that existed since Scid

Re: [Scid-users] Corrupt Name File

2007-05-28 Thread pgeorges
Hi, If you compiled Scid by yourself, there should be a scidt file in Scid directory if you type make scidt, as scidt is not compiled by default. Pascal Cory Helfrich a écrit : Hello, When I tried to save a modified game in one of my databases, I received the following message: Begin

Re: [Scid-users] Comment Limit on games?

2007-05-28 Thread pgeorges
Hi, The 3.6.15rc1 version available at my site fixes this (at least it can import the attached game). Note that it is always possible to make a game that can't be imported (for example insert a 1 MB comment). This is due to the fact that some buffers are statically sized. I increased the

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

2007-05-30 Thread pgeorges
So, if I understood well (last night was *very* short), the behavior should be the following : Ctrl-S : if game number is 0 : save as a new game if game number is not 0 : replace game Ctrl-R : if game number is 0 : save as a new game if game number is not 0 : save as a new

[Scid-users] Changes in UCI output : need testers

2007-06-07 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I released a rc2 of Scid 3.6.15 with a big change in UCI output conversion, which is a bit tricky (but now engine output is nicer and generated faster). So, I would appreciate if some could navigate games while an UCI engine is running and tell me if everything is ok : be warned if things

[Scid-users] Release of Scid 3.6.15 and ScidPocket 0.0.6

2007-06-13 Thread pgeorges
Hi, See below a changelog for Scid 3.6.15, I released today (http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/index.html). I also updated ScidPocket, which starts to be usable : all search functions from Scid are present (search position, header, material/pattern). Base are compatible between PC and Pocket (even

Re: [Scid-users] Pocket scid

2007-06-15 Thread pgeorges
Hi, What you ask for is a game list window. I will do it soon but for now I spend a lot of time trying to find a way to determine what bases can or cannot be loaded on a PPC : I found no reliable way to get the free heap size. So when you load a base with more than 100.000 games, Scid Pocket

[Scid-users] ScidPocket 0.1

2007-06-21 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I uploaded the first beta of Scid for Pocket PC : http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/PPC.html The main changes are a game list window, the display of the N best lines, and the display of tree informations (opening stats). Pascal

Re: [Scid-users] annotate one side only

2007-06-27 Thread pgeorges
Yes, it is. It is not 100% optimal, but this is a good way to be able to comment moves with NAG symbols. I agree this could be done in a little bit more efficient way. Pascal Ralf Stephan a écrit : Hello, while the checkboxes 'annotate white moves only' in the annotate box certainly work, in

Re: [Scid-users] Z0 nullmove notation?

2007-07-11 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I will look at this after current chess tournaments. Pascal Marcin Kasperski a écrit : Scid by itself uses another null move notation (--). Let it be, but maybe PGN import could recognize Z0 and handle it? I took a deeper look and it turned out that patching this is fairly

Re: [Scid-users] Read only

2007-07-13 Thread pgeorges
Hi, What do you mean by database : is it a true *.si* file, or do you use PGN ones ? The latter is indeed read only, not the former. Pascal Paul Andersson a écrit : Hi! Let's see if there are anyone on this list:-) I downloaded Scid and have worked a little with it, mainly looking for

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

2007-08-03 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : Note that I tried recompiling scid with Length variable type changed from ushort to uint (this is how I understood the suggestion in changelog, is it right?) and it did *not* help. This is normal as I put a check on the game size in file tkscid.cpp (line 7330)

Re: [Scid-users] spilliting a big pgn

2007-08-20 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I am sorry that people have to use dirty workarounds for a problem that is easy to solve, but you know that to be able to manage large PGN games would mean to break the compatibility between Scid 3.6.1 and the modified Scid (the new Scid could open both file formats, but not the original

[Scid-users] Scid for Pocket PC

2007-08-21 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I released a new Beta version (0.8) of Scid for Pocket PC at http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/PPC.html I would appreciate feedback about the installation process and the stability of Scid Pocket. The installation process is far easier now (just 2 cab files to install) but be aware that Scid must

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

2007-08-22 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : 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

[Scid-users] On multiple trees

2007-08-24 Thread pgeorges
Hi, Multiple tree windows are now nearly finished (it was far easier to do than I thought, even if some work remains), but I have a question : when Tree windows are opened, a base is opened and takes a slot number (through open base as Tree). But when the Tree window is closed, should also the

Re: [Scid-users] scidpocket cab file

2007-09-05 Thread pgeorges
John Fisher a écrit : I thought I would try scid pocket on my IPAQ 2210 using 2003. I installed the etcl cab OK and associated the .tcl type files. On clicking on the pocket scid cap (in the temp directory of my pocket pc) I was told that 'The file \temp\scidpocket- 0.11.Arm.CAB is not a

Re: [Scid-users] scid pocket IPAQ 2210

2007-09-05 Thread pgeorges
The answer was obvious : all Pocket PC site mention that only smartphones and newest Pocket PC handles compressed CAB. So next releases will be uncompressed CAB files. Pascal pgeorges a écrit : John Fisher a écrit : Thanks for the prompt response. I downloaded the cab you suggested

Re: [Scid-users] ECO file problem

2007-09-12 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : 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

Re: [Scid-users] Delete twin games

2007-09-15 Thread pgeorges
Hi Cory, Lasker 41th moves are different : Qd2 and Qd7. Pascal Cory Helfrich a écrit : Hello Pascal, I have a question regarding the Delete twin games... button in the Maintenance window. I check the following criteria: Same result, Same ECO code, and Same moves. I examine all games in

[Scid-users] Scid Pocket 0.14

2007-09-15 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I released a new version of Scid Pocket with Glaurung engine added. It is possible to make a tournament between Glaurung and Toga, and even if the nodes per second calculated by Glaurung are lower, it seems to be a better engine than Toga. Pascal

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

2007-09-25 Thread pgeorges
Hi Marcin, 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 : // Now execute the merge process once for each existing file: for (int i=2; i argc; i++) { char * sourceFileName =

Re: [Scid-users] Scidpocket error message

2007-09-26 Thread pgeorges
Hi, As you have a Pocket 2002 PDA, and as I tried (only tried ...) to use system calls present in all winCE versions including 2002, the error may be due to eTcl (they clearly don't officialy support PPC 2002). Or, I may have used a system call that is only present since Pocket 2003 : as I

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

2007-09-26 Thread pgeorges
ok, you convinced me ;-) Pascal Marcin Kasperski a écrit : No, no, no, it should be continue! This is just semantics of handling possible empty lines. In case of continue, we just ignore empty lines and keep reading stdin. In case of break, first empty line abort the process. The

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

2007-10-01 Thread pgeorges
Hi, Here is an excerpt of PGN standard : PGN is Portable Game Notation, a standard designed for the representation of chess game data using ASCII text files. So I'd say it excludes UTF8, and if an UTF8 char is over 8 bits (UTF8 special character) it should be displayed as 2 unreadable

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

2007-10-02 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : 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

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

2007-10-02 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : 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

Re: [Scid-users] Question on SCID versions

2007-10-02 Thread pgeorges
Marc Plum a écrit : First, let me acknowledge that this question is probably fully covered in the mailing list archives. However, when I try to search there on the Sourceforge site, I get a message that I don’t have sufficient privileges. I also don’t see a version history on the SCID

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty and *.emd

2007-10-18 Thread pgeorges
Michal Rudolf a écrit : Ejner Borgbjerg, czwartek, 18 października 2007: Please check following position: 3r4/2KP4/8/3R3p/6k1/8/8/8 b - - 2 66 Here Crafty works correctly in pre-EGTB positions, but not in positions from ChessX has similar problems, so probably Crafty's output in EGTB

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

2007-10-26 Thread pgeorges
J. Varsoke a écrit : Perhaps it is once again time to revisit the issue of the great Scid fork, and taking over this abandoned project. Since Feb 2007 nothing has transpired on the Scid project. No new releases. No code committed. No return of our beloved Shane. Yes, no public

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

2007-10-30 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : Hi! First of all I did not manage to subscribe for this list for whatever reason till now (was always refused or did not get any answers from the listrobot but now it seems to work) so I was not able to follow the discussion (still I've not found a way to access

[Scid-users] RC3

2007-10-30 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I uploaded a rc3 of Scid 3.6.19 (with a windows setup). Note that, at last, all up to date Scid for Pocket code is here (but I am sure I am the only person able to compile this mess). Regarding Scid for Pocket I am very close to 1.0, and I personaly use it every day to train openings. It

Re: [Scid-users] RC3

2007-11-02 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : pgeorges schrieb: Hi! I uploaded a rc3 of Scid 3.6.19 (with a windows setup). Some comments (I used the source, compiling on Debian Etch): - Analysis: It would be worth considering to run the analysis of a game from then end to the start. This allows

Re: [Scid-users] Editing comments

2007-11-03 Thread pgeorges
Michal Rudolf a écrit : I have problems adding comments to game with variation. Let's say we have a following game: 1. e4 e5 ( 1. ... c5 ) * 1. It doesn't seem possible to add a comment before 1... c5, such as: ( { It was better to play } 1... c5) 2. Pre-game comment disappears.

Re: [Scid-users] Editing comments

2007-11-03 Thread pgeorges
Michal Rudolf a écrit : I have problems adding comments to game with variation. Let's say we have a following game: 1. e4 e5 ( 1. ... c5 ) * 1. It doesn't seem possible to add a comment before 1... c5, such as: ( { It was better to play } 1... c5) 2. Pre-game comment disappears.

[Scid-users] Scid 3.6.19 released

2007-11-03 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I released Scid 3.6.19 at http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/ Changelog can be found at the bottom of the page. Pascal - This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems?

Re: [Scid-users] Scid 3.6.19 released

2007-11-03 Thread pgeorges
to 3.6.1 ? I mean, can both distributions be intalled on the disc? I am using the last version from Shane and now like to test the new one. Best regards Bernhard Bialas Am Samstag, 3. November 2007 14:13 schrieb pgeorges: Hi, I released Scid 3.6.19 at http://prolinux.free.fr/scid

Re: [Scid-users] Editing comments

2007-11-03 Thread pgeorges
J. Varsoke a écrit : On Sat, Nov 03, 2007 at 12:29:15PM +0100, pgeorges wrote: I find this normal as there is no command like add comment before move like in chessbase. The fact that it is possible to add a comment before move 1 is just a side effect of current move being 0

[Scid-users] Scid 3.6.20

2007-11-04 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I updated Scid because the ECO file was corrupted in Windows binary release. Meanwhile I fixed the comment bugs : when in a variation, left arrow no longer exits the variation (z key must be pressed to leave variation). That way it is possible to enter a comment at the beginning of a line

Re: [Scid-users] Scid 3.6.20

2007-11-04 Thread pgeorges
Ejner Borgbjerg a écrit : On Nov 4, 2007 11:35 AM, pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I updated Scid because the ECO file was corrupted in Windows binary release. Meanwhile I fixed the comment bugs : when in a variation, left arrow no longer exits the variation (z key must be pressed

Re: [Scid-users] Scid 3.6.20

2007-11-04 Thread pgeorges
Ejner Borgbjerg a écrit : On Nov 4, 2007 11:35 AM, pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I updated Scid because the ECO file was corrupted in Windows binary release. Meanwhile I fixed the comment bugs : when in a variation, left arrow no longer exits the variation (z key must be pressed

Re: [Scid-users] new feature request for scid for pocketPC

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Jonathan Cremers a écrit : Hi, Hello, Thanks for your great peace of software. And love too :-) I'm particularly interested in the Scid for pocket PC. It's already a great tool but I have some ideas for new features I would like to be able to use. When I open the pgn list I would

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : Hi! Just some suggestions I came accross while looking at the recent releases. - Analysis * I think it would be good to store the engines score also in short comments format. I find the rating graph quite helpfull. I will add an option for this.

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : pgeorges schrieb: Hi! (One could even consider drawing more than one line if analysis of several engines is available.) Difficult to do as scores are not in a particular field, but comments are parsed to find things looking like +/-X.X Right

Re: [Scid-users] Some Ideas

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : pgeorges schrieb: Hi! if you want to avoid errors. I see the problem. Probably if the score comment looks something like this Score: +1.35 (A) +1.27 (B)? Yes, that looks good. While you're at it (the above needs rewriting of engine output, so I come

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

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : c) I *hate* the way picking piece set is currently implemented. Options/Chessboard/PieceStyle/nameWhichNeedNotToTellMeAnything, and if I dislike what I picked, again Options/Chessboard/ [...] Yes, the way square images are selected needs some work,

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : Marcin Kasperski schrieb: Hi! Friendly google took me to: http://www.muonics.com/FreeStuff/TkPNG/ Maybe it would be possible to take a look at it? I admit to be a bit conservative. But doing a quick package search on debian stable revealed: nothing. (Same

Re: [Scid-users] prefix, graphics

2007-11-05 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : Is it possible to test such images on local scid install before sending them? I mean pointing (local) scid somehow to use such image file It is not possible without changing a little bit the code in bitmaps.tcl. Pascal

[Scid-users] Graphics

2007-11-06 Thread pgeorges
Hi, For those willing to try it, I released a RC2 version with : - a new chess set : Fantasy, which is a really nice one (thanks to Uwe Klimmek) - it is now easy to switch square textures (see the menu options - chessboard - colors...). Pascal

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

2007-11-20 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : [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.

Re: [Scid-users] Tree Cache Files

2007-11-21 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : Also to Pascal in a similar problem. If there is a bug in cache handling and it has to be touched one might consierer ... ;) It would be nice to have a way to get more than the current variations indexed to the cache file automagically. Currently I do the

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

2007-11-21 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I use Suse, and typing ./configure make ./scid should be sufficient (if all devel packages are installed like gcc, tcl-devel; tk-devel, etc.) You can also use make install as root. I stopped building RPM packages years ago, given the huge diversity of Linux distributions. Pascal

Re: [Scid-users] Tree Cache Files

2007-11-22 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : So we could use a PGN-ified version of Scid.eco or something like that and asks Scid to generate the cache from it (even if the computing time will increase somewhat). This is a good starting point, still I think it would be woth to have also a userdefined

[Scid-users] Scid ratings on PPC

2007-11-23 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I was pointed those interesting links : http://raitpref.hotbox.ru/ct002-1.htm http://raitpref.hotbox.ru/ct001-r.htm Which shows to me I really have to make progress in the PPC field (CPU optimisation). Pascal - This

Re: [Scid-users] take back

2007-11-23 Thread pgeorges
Hi, If you entered e4 e5 and wanted e4 e6, just use left arrow to go back one move and reenter e6 (the correct move, choosing replace move). Pascal Jan Joustra a écrit : Dear Sirs If, by wrong mouse movements, I want to take back the last piece movement, how can I do that ? Thanks a lot

[Scid-users] Cache tree

2007-11-24 Thread pgeorges
Hi, Currently Scid has a hard limit of 250 positions cached for each bases' Tree. So if the user caches a 251th position, one of the first 250 will be removed. Given that the fill cache menu fills the cache with 110 positions, only 140 are left. Hence if the user navigates through 150

Re: [Scid-users] Save the tree to a file

2007-11-24 Thread pgeorges
J. Varsoke a écrit : My primary use of Scid is to analyse my opening play. I have a very large database (3mil?) based on a converted ChessBase Mega + TWIC. I'm sure a lot of you have a similar setup. I usually open Mega, then open the Tree view. Hit the lock toggle. Then I go over to

Re: [Scid-users] Tree Cache Files

2007-11-26 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : Hm, I admit that it would be a very nice thing for the user not to have to dig in the code to find that valuable information... I think some n lines left for the cache (say if 95% is filled) would be some way to deal with it. The nice way would probably be to drop

[Scid-users] Stoyko exercise

2007-11-28 Thread pgeorges
Hi, At http://mywebpages.comcast.net/danheisman/Articles/Exercises.html the stoyko exercise is explained (para 3.1). At http://www.chessbase.com/newsdetail.asp?newsid=4273 the first paragraph describes how this training method is implemented in Fritz 11. I wonder if this method is really useful

Re: [Scid-users] rc6

2007-11-29 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : pgeorges schrieb: Hi! I uploaded a RC6 version with few changes : - Shredder 's options are configurable and seems to work (ELO limitation) Thx. :) From Stefan: he confirmed that the UCI_* parameters should not be set via the config dialog

Re: [Scid-users] Training

2007-12-05 Thread pgeorges
Cory Helfrich a écrit : Also, switch off Options/Moves/Show suggested moves... Cory Helfrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Yes, I did not miss that one. Pascal - SF.Net email is sponsored by: The Future of

Re: [Scid-users] Input Engine

2007-12-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : pgeorges schrieb: Good Morning! As this is probably of some interest to the community here, also to the list as well as to the dgtnix-list, probably they've also some interest in it. I started to look at DGT support. Regarding dgtdrv and dgtnix, I think

[Scid-users] Stoyko exercise

2007-12-05 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I released a new version rc8 with the Stoyko exercise (see in the training section). It is certainly buggy and unpolished, but the features are there. There is some help by pressing F1. Feedbacks, suggestions and comments are welcome. Pascal

[Scid-users] Scid Pocket

2007-12-05 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I released a new version of Scid Pocket with Fruit 2.3.1 (closed source version of Fruit, which is really strong, even if Glaurung manages to win some games). I left there Fruit 2.1, just in case. Pascal - SF.Net

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960, huh?

2007-12-05 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : The lack of reasonable database for chess960 games is more and more painful. Big players are not interested and at the moment one may only try 'next crash in 3 minutes' jose or 'I am not quite a database' shredder GUI. Would the project of implementing chess960

[Scid-users] Scid 3.6.21

2008-01-02 Thread pgeorges
Hi, I released Scid 3.6.21 at http://prolinux.free.fr/scid/ From the Changelog (unsorted !) : - Bug fix : store comment before displaying vars window - Engine's name in Annotator tag : optional now - New option in annotation configuration dialog when short annotations are selected : add score

Re: [Scid-users] Play on internet

2008-01-03 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : I found no easy way to do this. FICS is an human readable protocol, not easily parsed. If I asked for the moves from the beginning I don't know when I will read them on the socket, I am not sure some other info will not slip in between, and I don't know when moves

Re: [Scid-users] Play on internet

2008-01-07 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : Good Morning! I stopped for a while working on FICS because I received my Novag Citrine. :) I consider FICS something that has now some basic functionality but could be extended by others/later on. Maybe I'll also have a look into it but right now I'm

Re: [Scid-users] Play on internet

2008-01-07 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : Hi Alexander, I added a silence checkbox. See my earlier post, this is really bad name. Of course this needs to be polished, as FICS support in general. But I still have to find a good way to get game proposals and display them to the user, and set

Re: [Scid-users] Problems when entering moves with mouse

2008-01-09 Thread pgeorges
Jens Guballa a écrit : Hi all, with former versions of scid it was possible to enter moves by dragging the destination square with the left mouse button to the originating sqare of a move (that's my favorite style of entering moves). With the actual version of scid this seems not to work

Re: [Scid-users] Play on internet

2008-01-09 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : All those inputs are handled by separate procedures (present in different files). In each of these procedures it is necessary to send the new board position to a currently analysing engine. It certainly would be nice to gather all these in one place. I have

Re: [Scid-users] Problems when entering moves with mouse

2008-01-09 Thread pgeorges
Jens Guballa a écrit : pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] schrieb: Jens Guballa a écrit : Hi all, with former versions of scid it was possible to enter moves by dragging the destination square with the left mouse button to the originating sqare of a move (that's my favorite style

Re: [Scid-users] Play on internet

2008-01-10 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : But I still don't understand. If you centralise it in CE code and TCL is as portable as you always stress it, why on earth isn't this common code for scid? It should then be the same for both versions, not? Hi, As I already said there are differences that are not

Re: [Scid-users] Scid Pocket

2008-01-13 Thread pgeorges
), that makes a port impossible. Pascal Cory Helfrich a écrit : Hello Pascal, Have you considered a Palm OS version of Scid Pocket? Thanks, Cory Cory Helfrich [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Original Message From: pgeorges [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scid Users List scid-users

Re: [Scid-users] Sorting/filtering best tree games?

2008-02-05 Thread pgeorges
Marcin Kasperski a écrit : Best tree games are very useful, but sometimes it would be nice if I could sort and/or filter them (well, in fact there is one filtering possibility - by the result) My main use case is restricting this list by date (to the games played recently) or sorting by date

Re: [Scid-users] Bug in closing DB

2008-02-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : pgeorges schrieb: Hi! What version are you using? I believe this error got fixed in the 3.6.22 release. Although it may be that it didn't get completely fixed in Linux; I use Windows. Indeed this is fixed in latest version (see changelog). 3.6.21, I did

Re: [Scid-users] XFCC support (XML TCL)

2008-02-05 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : Hi! A first glance at TCL's XML-support seems to require tcldom from tclxml.sf.net. This seems not to be within the standard. Does anybody know of a better way to get a XPath-implementation within TCL? Otherwise the gain is not that much compared to some external

Re: [Scid-users] Menue was: cvs

2008-02-06 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : For the Hotkey-Menu-Items Tools / Start Engine 1 Tools / Start Engine 2 one could consider probably be something like Tools / Analysis Engine #1 / Select Ctrl-Shift-A / Start Engine 1 F1 Tools /

Re: [Scid-users] XFCC support (XML TCL)

2008-02-06 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : It's only drawback is that the XFCC-Recieve and XFCC-Send toolset I use are pure Perl, just as I did them in Perl as it's much easier for me there, knowing the toolset I need and using the language all day. The disadvantage is just that they raise the requirements.

Re: [Scid-users] Scid Game List -- Annotate

2008-02-10 Thread pgeorges
Benigno Hernández a écrit : Hi. In the striped items(games), to add a button for: 1. A search fulfils HI, Can you precise what strip option you refer to ? 2. On items(games) leaked(filtered), a) to choose an engine b) to annotate the selected items(games). Of this form it might

Re: [Scid-users] Player Photos broken?

2008-02-11 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : Pascal Georges wrote: Hi! Scid tells me upon startup that it finds the player photos, even loads several files if there are, but I also tried with a single one. But the images do not get displayed anywhere. Neither in the information area nor in

Re: [Scid-users] NLS, Help

2008-02-21 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : But tell me: What do I get then? A normal variable that I can insert somewhere? And how is this short status bar help related? I do not really understand those language files. Hi, There are 2 translation processes : the simplest one is the translation of a

Re: [Scid-users] Memory Index out of sync?

2008-02-25 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : Hi! You may remember that I posted this problem some time ago, and it still persists. I did some additional observation but still can not say do this and that and you'll see. Anyway, it seems that once extensive (header?) searches are performed through a

Re: [Scid-users] Eco-Browser

2008-03-06 Thread pgeorges
[EMAIL PROTECTED] a écrit : Hallo, In the Eco-Browser when i click B80a the position is on the board change to B80a. But when i click B89 the position does not change on the board. Can anybody confirm this ? Franz Nagl Hi, I never use the ECO browser, but I checked and when clicking

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

2008-03-07 Thread pgeorges
shiv shivaji a écrit : I came across the following open source utility: CBUtils available from ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/UTIL/cbu_src.zip . Binary available from ftp://ftp.pitt.edu/group/student-activities/chess/UTIL/cbu_bin.zip . Of course, the binaries are for

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

2008-03-07 Thread pgeorges
Gilbert Rebhan a écrit : shiv shivaji schrieb: [...] If we have a way to directly import (and possibly export CBF) from/to Scid, then compatibility with chessbase be much easier. I wanted to see what others think about CBF import/export within Scid. While cbf support

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

2008-03-07 Thread pgeorges
Gilbert Rebhan a écrit : pgeorges wrote: Scid will never support natively *.cb? files but only be able to import them once for all, then use its own data structures (*.si? files). So why not simply use the intermediate format : PGN ? yup, use the pgn format as interstation works

Re: [Scid-users] Xfcc for the impatient

2008-03-08 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : pgeorges wrote: Hi! This is a stable SuSE? Or some of this Open-Ever-Beta stuff? That is: could it just be a bug in SuSE? Probably solved by some of their updates? I use SLED 10.1, supported by Suse. I also checked on Windows (ActiveState Tcl) and tdom

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