Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:08 PM, Israel Chauca wrote: > On Jun 26, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Garth Corral wrote: > >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Israel Chauca >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Garth Corral wrote: >>> As root on the comman

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 26, 2008, at 4:00 PM, Garth Corral wrote: >> :-) >> Oh yeah, that. >> >> That's not a problem with your particular crafty build, but is a >> crafty/os x issue. >> >> Crafty wants an enormous shared memory segment and os x has a >> somewhat >> small shmmax value by default. >> >> Here's wh

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Israel Chauca
On Jun 26, 2008, at 6:54 PM, Garth Corral wrote: > > > Sent from my iPhone > > On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Israel Chauca > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Jun 26, 2008, at 5:48 PM, Garth Corral wrote: >> >>> As root on the command line, type >>> >>> sysctl -w kern.sysv.shmmax=1073741824 >>>

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:48 PM, Garth Corral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 26, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Israel Chauca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: >> >> I get the next text before crafty exits: >> >> unable to open book file [./book.bin]. >> book is disabled >> unable to open book file [./books.bi

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
Please ignore that last message. Sending from my iPhone and sent too soon. I'll resent the complete message. > >> >> >>> - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for jus

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 26, 2008, at 2:12 PM, Israel Chauca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I get the next text before crafty exits: > > unable to open book file [./book.bin]. > book is disabled > unable to open book file [./books.bin]. > ERROR. shmget() failed, unable to allocate a shared memory segment. >

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid: CentriScid

2008-06-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
After supper, and while eating cream with maple syrup, I realize that we could : - use flags for the Ref-DB, where size and speed matters ; - use PGN tags only when we are in specialized-dbs. So monkeys and non-monkeys can have a ball. -

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid: CentriScid

2008-06-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Indeed. Calming down now, I realize that we can live without Ids. I thought that was a simple task. That is a real pity, from a reference point of view. Still, I wonder how the DOI can survive Pascal's demonstration. Looking a bit, they are using CRNI handle system. I don't know the beast, bu

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid

2008-06-26 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/6/26 Benoit St-Pierre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > How stupid what the users do should not be of our concern. The scheme is > very simple : keywords and two levels of titles. It suffices to write > anything that is short enough to be read in a life time. It does not need > any kind of modificati

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid: CentriScid

2008-06-26 Thread Michal Rudolf
Benoit St-Pierre, czwartek, 26 czerwca 2008: >>Moreover I prefer the reference "Spassky Fischer 1972, round 3" than "game >> my_huge_ref_db:v12-12345678", because if I copy a game from a base to >> another "Spassky Fischer 1972, round 3" is still valid. Not "game >> my_huge_ref_db:v12-12345678".

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid: CentriScid

2008-06-26 Thread Michal Rudolf
Pascal Georges, czwartek, 26 czerwca 2008: >The penalty is at least 15 bytes + tag (uid) = 18 bytes. I checked the >"enormous" base on Crafty's site, and each game is 82 bytes on average. So >we increase games' data by 18% ! The figure is high, and should be around 8% >with games where the header

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid: CentriScid

2008-06-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> PGN tags are handled as strings. With this layout, each game will have an > UID which will cost around 20 chars. So the sg3 file is increased by 60 MB > for a 3 M games DB. So the average number of games in each block will > decrease, leading to an overall search penalty (more I/O). Note that eve

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Pascal Georges
Maybe mistakenly checked the UCI checkbox ? Pascal 2008/6/26 Garth Corral <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > On Jun 26, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Israel Chauca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > The version 21.6 of Crafty that comes with Scid compiles but doesn't > > work in my machine (iMac G5 MacOS 10.5.3 Xc

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid: CentriScid

2008-06-26 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/6/26 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > >Build it into scid: well this is the way arround using > >UIDs for categories and keywords. Not a flexible way but > >a doable way. I'd suggest to read them in from a file, > >though. That way every contributor co

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid

2008-06-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Ok, I get impatient now. So I will quote too. I just learend that this will add an awfull lot of dead text > to the index and it seems not viable to handle it that way. > As a user, I use what I write. So it's not dead, even if it's slow. As a user, I do whatever I want. Among other things,

Re: [Scid-users] Tiny enhancements

2008-06-26 Thread Alexander Wagner
Pascal Georges wrote: Hi! > > Hi Georgio, > > > > This works for me except : > > > > - the missing icons you mention are indeed ... missing > I can add the widgets with new ids in the sources, but I'm not able at > all to draw the images. > > > This is also my

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Israel Chauca
On Jun 26, 2008, at 3:59 PM, Garth Corral wrote: > > > On Jun 26, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Israel Chauca > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> The version 21.6 of Crafty that comes with Scid compiles but doesn't >> work in my machine (iMac G5 MacOS 10.5.3 Xcode 3). Is everybody else >> having the same iss

Re: [Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Garth Corral
On Jun 26, 2008, at 12:36 PM, Israel Chauca <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The version 21.6 of Crafty that comes with Scid compiles but doesn't > work in my machine (iMac G5 MacOS 10.5.3 Xcode 3). Is everybody else > having the same issue? > I'm running it on a dual G5 without issues. What do y

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid

2008-06-26 Thread Alexander Wagner
Hi! > This gets more concrete ! > > 1. The category tag could be used as a way to create books : > > [Category "Castle Destruction"] > [Category "Isolated Pawns for the Advanced Player"] > [Topic "Rook Lift"] > [Topic "Double Bishop Sacrifice"] I just learend that this will add

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid: CentriScid

2008-06-26 Thread Alexander Wagner
Pascal Georges wrote: Hi! > It is to be asked if the array of flags could be extended a > bit. That is, that there could be more flags without > breaking any compatibility. (E.g. personally I'd like to > have more user flags.) > This is not possible. There are only 16 flags. I h

[Scid-users] Crafty 21.6 on Mac

2008-06-26 Thread Israel Chauca
The version 21.6 of Crafty that comes with Scid compiles but doesn't work in my machine (iMac G5 MacOS 10.5.3 Xcode 3). Is everybody else having the same issue? - Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the bes

Re: [Scid-users] Tiny enhancements

2008-06-26 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/6/26 Giorgio Bellegotti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi Pascal, > I reply below point by point. > > > Pascal Georges ha scritto: > > Hi Georgio, > > > > This works for me except : > > > > - the missing icons you mention are indeed ... missing > I can add the widgets with new ids in the sources, bu

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid: CentriScid

2008-06-26 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/6/25 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pascal Georges wrote: > > It is to be asked if the array of flags could be extended a > bit. That is, that there could be more flags without > breaking any compatibility. (E.g. personally I'd like to > have more user flags.) > This is not possible

Re: [Scid-users] Tiny enhancements

2008-06-26 Thread Giorgio Bellegotti
Hi Pascal, I reply below point by point. Pascal Georges ha scritto: > Hi Georgio, > > This works for me except : > > - the missing icons you mention are indeed ... missing I can add the widgets with new ids in the sources, but I'm not able at all to draw the images. > - the two added buttons, "

Re: [Scid-users] Tiny enhancements

2008-06-26 Thread Pascal Georges
Hi Georgio, This works for me except : - the missing icons you mention are indeed ... missing - the two added buttons, "show history" and "show engine info" should be toggle button, that is stay depressed to show an "ON" state. See the cpu priority button. - when multipv is > 1, history mode sho

Re: [Scid-users] Database for Scid

2008-06-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, This gets more concrete ! 1. The category tag could be used as a way to create books : [Category "Castle Destruction"] [Category "Isolated Pawns for the Advanced Player"] [Topic "Rook Lift"] [Topic "Double Bishop Sacrifice"] We the notion of category could be interpreted