I make a copy to Scid users list, as it may interests others. I already changed EPD handling : - it looks a bit more like Arena, and EPD positions can be selected directly with mouse, - I am on the way to add the capability to annotate an EPD file (with EPD as output, without going through PGN)
I think this should suffice. I am a bit puzzled by the way EPD is handled in Scid. It seems Shane Hudson wanted to make some book features through EPD (he even aliased sc_epd to sc_book in C++ part of Scid). Pascal ForumChess a écrit : > The EPD analysis is often called "the overnight analysis" and is offered by > the expensive Bookup and Chess Assistant only. If you convert EPD to PGN and > analyse you do not get an EPD output file. > > To do it freely there is however another way, shown below. The question is > if > something of all this, icluding the kind of Arena EPD table show up, can be > made inside SCID. > Regards > ForumChess SCID > ================= > Overnight Analysis (free mode): > > EPD Analysis (new) with strong UCI engines > > The author of GradualTest software (Odd Gunnar Malin) has just released a > new version of GradualTest which can work now also with UCI engines. You can > analyse with it the EPD positions (of a game, the opening, etc) with a UCI > (or WB) engine of your choice, e.g. Rybka, Fruit, Shredder (or Crafty), etc. > and for the time you loke to set for each EPD. This tool is good also for > the so called Overnight Analysis of EPD positions. > > You can download GradualTest from http://utilities.sjakk.biz/ > > To use the program it is better to create (a) an "*.eng" file > (enginename.eng) to invoke the UCI engine that you select, e.g. "Rybka > v1.2f.w32.eng". In this eng file you can add options besides to Hash and > (b) a "*.bat" file for each engine to start the analysis. If you use Rybka, > you can call it, e.g. TestRybka.bat You just double click the bat file and > everything starts automatically. > > > Details: > > 1) Suppose you have your UCI engine in another drive than "C" that I call > here "F" (type your own drive and folder). > I call the Engine to use here as "TogaII" but replace this with your engine > name). > F:\CHESS\ENGINES\TogaII.exe > > 2) Open a folder for "Gradualtest" program. You can have it in > F:\CHESS\UTILITIES\GradualTest\ > as used in the example below, > > 3) Build your "TogaII.eng" file with an editor and save it in your relative > folder. You can use the folder: > F:\CHESS\UTILITIES\GradualTest and the eng file shall be placed now in this > folder > as F:\CHESS\UTILITIES\GradualTest\TogaII.eng > To build the ENG file just type the text below with your engine name and > save it as an eng file : > ======================================== > [ENGINE] > Filename=F:\CHESS\ENGINES\TogaII.exe > > [OPTIONS] > Hash=64 > ========================================= > {Note: You can add other options in the above text if you want} > > 4) Build now your bat file. Type the text below with a text editor and save > it as a bat file. e.g. as "TestTogaII.bat" It is understood that > i : is the input EPD file, in the example it is called "Chess.epd". Place > this EPD file in the GradualTest folder. > o: is the output file, called here Chessout.epd that is created > automatically and includes the EPD analysis info. > t:: is the time in seconds. To learn the program set t=10. For overnight > analysis for 5 minutes for each position set t=300 and so on. > ======================================= > F:\CHESS\UTILITIES\GradualTest\GradualTest /i Chess.epd /o Chessout.epd /t > 10 F:\CHESS\UTILITIES\GradualTest\TogaII.eng > ======================================= > > To remember what Output file you get each time, add the engine name and the > seconds used. For example you can call the Chessout.epd as > "TogaII_Chessout_10.epd". For the particular case of TogaII Check that it > has its SRC folder together. > > ====================== END > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "pgeorges" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "ForumChess" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Scid Users List" > <scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > Sent: Monday, March 12, 2007 7:58 PM > Subject: EPD support > > > >> Hi, >> >> Some users would like an improvement on EPD handling in Scid : I gave >> Arena a try, and it displays each line in the form >> # | bestmove | position (in fact this contains the whole line) | >> >> So the EPD window certainly looks better. >> >> There are other requests, as the capacity to auto-annotate an epd file, >> that is to add the bm tag (and others like pv, etc...). >> >> I personaly only use PGN (it fills all my needs), not EPD files so I am >> a bit reluctant on EPD improvements, but comments are welcome on this >> subject : if there is a market, I will try to do something :-) . >> >> Pascal Georges >> >> > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. 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