Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-11 Thread Michal Rudolf
Pascal Georges, piÄ…tek, 11 lipca 2008: >So, there is a way to generate tactical exercises, but this takes a lot of >CPU time, and those exercises should be manually checked (removing the >Tactics flag if they don't deserve it). Then a way to display those >exercises must be defined. I wrote a sep

[Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-11 Thread Pascal Georges
Hi, There some good web sites with tactical exercises, for example http://chess.emrald.net/ and http://chesstempo.com/ . I prefer the later because the user interface is better and there is no clock pressure (in standard mode). But I also prefer Scid's interface. So I added an extra option in Anno

Re: [Scid-users] FYI: crafty 22.1

2008-07-11 Thread Pascal Georges
> Does Glaurung really offer a limitation of strength? I mean, > for the "simple minded" that do not really know how to set > all the flags individually. ;) > It seems to be a work in progress but it seems that Tord Romstad tries to emulate an human like opponent, and I will give a try a little bi

Re: [Scid-users] Using the opening trainer

2008-07-11 Thread Alexander Wagner
Henk van Lingen wrote: Hi! Pascal does not like the repertoir editor and never uses it. Therefore he didn't care about it. He uses uses PGN files containing the repertoir instead and the opening trainer is built on that infrastructure. Is there an example of how such a pgn file used for this

Re: [Scid-users] Using the opening trainer

2008-07-11 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/7/11 Pascal Georges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > > 2008/7/11 Henk van Lingen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> Hi, >> >> Can someone give a hint about how to use the opening trainer? The docpage >> says you should load a normal database and not a .sor file. How does one >> make a normal database from a .

Re: [Scid-users] Using the opening trainer

2008-07-11 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/7/11 Henk van Lingen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi, > > Can someone give a hint about how to use the opening trainer? The docpage > says you should load a normal database and not a .sor file. How does one > make a normal database from a .sor file? And is it really about playing > 'against' your o

Re: [Scid-users] FYI: crafty 22.1

2008-07-11 Thread Alexander Wagner
Hi! >> From crafty's Changelog: >> >> New "skill" command that can be used to "dumb down" >> crafty. "skill " where n is a number between 1 >[...] >> I wonder if this is usefull somewhere, somehow. I did not >> test it, I just stumbled upon this. >> > I looked a

Re: [Scid-users] FYI: crafty 22.1

2008-07-11 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/7/11 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Hi! > > From crafty's Changelog: > > New "skill" command that can be used to "dumb down" > crafty. "skill " where n is a number between 1 > and 100. 100 is max (default) skill. skill 70 will > drop the playing Elo by about 2

Re: [Scid-users] Using the opening trainer

2008-07-11 Thread Henk van Lingen
> Pascal does not like > the repertoir editor and never uses it. Therefore he didn't > care about it. He uses uses PGN files containing the > repertoir instead and the opening trainer is built on that > infrastructure. Is there an example of how such a pgn file used for this looks like? Is it just

Re: [Scid-users] Using the opening trainer

2008-07-11 Thread Henk van Lingen
> Therefore, at the moment the only way I know is, to do the > conversion "by hand". > > However, maybe you can come up with a utility for the > conversion yourself. Oke, clear. I will give it a thought :-) > I think you missunderstood the "against". Say, if you train > your white repertoir then

Re: [Scid-users] Using the opening trainer

2008-07-11 Thread Alexander Wagner
Henk van Lingen wrote: Hi! > Can someone give a hint about how to use the opening trainer? The docpage > says you should load a normal database and not a .sor file. How does one > make a normal database from a .sor file? Actually, this is not yet possible. :( Pascal does not like the repertoir e

[Scid-users] Using the opening trainer

2008-07-11 Thread Henk van Lingen
Hi, Can someone give a hint about how to use the opening trainer? The docpage says you should load a normal database and not a .sor file. How does one make a normal database from a .sor file? And is it really about playing 'against' your own repertoire? Actually I want to train my own repertoire,

[Scid-users] FYI: crafty 22.1

2008-07-11 Thread Alexander Wagner
Hi! From crafty's Changelog: New "skill" command that can be used to "dumb down" crafty. "skill " where n is a number between 1 and 100. 100 is max (default) skill. skill 70 will drop the playing Elo by about 200 points. skill 50 will drop it about 400 points. t