Hi again! Concerning databases: any suggestions on where to find good collections to download and play with? Googling for it mostly gives me online databases, like http://chessopeningsdatabase.com/
Best, Magnus Dale Hards wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Magnus Larsson <mag...@vista.se > <mailto:mag...@vista.se>> wrote: > > Hi! > > > Hi! > > > > Also, the feature "Play - Training - Openings" souds interesting - but > it asks med to first open repertoire database. So what is that...? How > do I find or construct one? > > > As Alexander has said there is a help file, which I am actually in the > process of rewriting (should be soon). > > To answer your question - there's lots of ways you can construct a > repertoire. Basically, the process is - get a database of games with > the openings you want, perhaps a database of just the Bishop's Opening > for example, then find a way to mark some of these games as white > openings or black openings. Then you need to set the icon of the > database to one of the opening icons. > > For example, here's one way to construct a simple database - I can't > vouch for it's quality. > > Filter one of your databases (or download one from the internet - you > can even buy some although I like to stick to the free/open-source > ones) for the opening you want, then copy the filtered games to > a separate database, named something appropriate - e.g.: > "BishopsOpening". Then in that database, you need to assign some games > as white opening, and some as black opening (you can do just the one, > or you can do both). One way you could do this, is filter the new > database for 1-0 results, then go to the Database Maintenance window, > and assign the filter games with the "White Opening" flag. Then if you > want black openings, do the same for 0-1 results, using the "Black > Opening" flag. > > Finally you set the icon. Up in the top right corner of the Database > Maintenance window you should see a picture. Click on the picture and > select the appropriate icon. I.e. if you have only flagged white > openings, choose the white openings icon, if you have both, choose the > black and white openings icon, etc, etc. > > I don't have SCID on this computer, so I'm doing this from memory - > but it should be correct. > > Alexander - this is the kind of thing I'll be putting in the help > file. Are you satisfied with this level of explanation? > > Dale > > > > Grateful for any advice on this. > > Best, > > > Magnus > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > <mailto:Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net> > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ > Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval > Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs > proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. > See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. > http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Download Intel® Parallel Studio Eval Try the new software tools for yourself. Speed compiling, find bugs proactively, and fine-tune applications for parallel performance. See why Intel Parallel Studio got high marks during beta. http://p.sf.net/sfu/intel-sw-dev _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
