Claus Behl a écrit : > pgeorges schrieb: >> 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 (some for free). I use some of them and they all have an user >> interface that is good enough and current played games can be >> downloaded in PGN and then of course imported into any chess app. The >> problem here is I don't think there is an unique way to access these >> sites from Scid (is there an universal protocol like xboard or UCI >> for engines ?). The only features I found related to correspondence >> chess in Scid is the ability to use a special icon type for a >> database and an email manager I never used because I just prefer >> other ways of playing. So my (personal) conclusion is : nothing to do >> here. >> > There is a lack of a program like mailchess (see > http://www.cmpgo.de/chess/index.html) > for linux. This Program let you organize your email-chess games, and > tournaments. It would be great if scid could close this gap. Of course > this would be a mayor extension to the features of scid, and not > easily to be done. > > Claus > > Did you check Scid's email manager ? (Tools-> email manager) I personaly never used it. My german is not really good, but what I see in mailchess will not be easily developed in a multi-platform way. There are features that are really specific to the OS (mail handling on Linux, windows, and certainly MacOS for example).
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