> 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 could be of noticeable help. Leaving apart chess, it could also make it possible to use scid as a pad for entering chess variant games. > I fear the only work around is the same as you'd use for C960 games: > store the first part of your game till the invalid castling, then create > a new game with the starting position of the castled king. If you don't > reorder your base you could switch to the continuation Game / Load Next > game (Ctrl-down). Not elegant, I agree. Yeah, I know this workaround, but here it is even worse than in chess960 where the "invalid" castle lasts just one move. If wrong position lasts for 5-10 oves, then I both need to reconstruct it in mind without any help from scid, and loose the ability to replay it and show what was going on. > I'd only have a work around here as well. You can copy the notation as > far as you got it to the clipboard (system clipboard not the clipbase). > File / Copy game to clipboard from PGN window or, if you use cvs version > Ctrl-C, which adds to clipbase and the current game to the clipboard. > Then you can put it into some editor buffer (I guess you've emacs > opened all the time anyway), change the move in question there and use > Tools / Import one PGN game to get it back into your base. Not elegant, > but well, better than redoing everything. I am not sure whether it is really less work than reclicking a variation ;-) > I fear this is not easily possible. > (...) > I fear the same as for a). > > Both might involve a bunch of technicalities in the backend. I'm not > sure but I'd not expect this behaviour to be fixed to your use cases > especially in the short term. Well, I just make a suggestion for some future consideration. >From what I saw, the problems I faced (entering and preserving invalid games and reconstructing game from incomplete/partially wrong score) are fairly popular, especially when paper scores and amateur level competitions are considered. So a tool which would offer reasonable help here could get some new "points" among people, khem, khem. Of course I can't expect any immediate actions, just wanted to let you consider those scenarios. Regards. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The modern datacenter depends on network connectivity to access resources and provide services. The best practices for maximizing a physical server's connectivity to a physical network are well understood - see how these rules translate into the virtual world? http://p.sf.net/sfu/oracle-sfdevnlfb _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
