Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Michal Rudolf
Pascal Georges, sobota, 12 lipca 2008: >I switched to "from/to" in CVS. So don't use previous code (with sc/psc), or >"Find best move" will not find next tactical position. Look at following game: 1. e4 c5 2. c3 d5 3. exd5 Qxd5 4. d4 Nc6 5. Nf3 Bg4 6. Be2 cxd4 7. cxd4 e6 8. Nc3 Bb4 9. a3 Bxc3+ 1

Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Pascal Georges
> > > Also I'd suggest to offer some translation in "plain text" >> for the user, e.g. in the notification area of scid. The >> format is a bit complex IMHO. At least if a human should >> read it. For human usage I'd e.g. find it much more >> intuitive if the score is in a "from-to" format, somethi

Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Alexander Wagner
Pascal Georges wrote: Hi! > So I added an extra option in Annotation window that will append > special comments and a flag to a game if some tactics are met : > "d${depth}sc${score}psc$prevscore my_comment". > For example "d5sc3.4psc1.2" means that the sc

Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Alexander Wagner
Pascal Georges wrote: Hi! > So I added an extra option in Annotation window that will append special > comments and a flag to a game if some tactics are met : > "d${depth}sc${score}psc$prevscore my_comment". > For example "d5sc3.4psc1.2" means that the score went from 1.2 to > 3.4, so

Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/7/12 Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Is it possible to just perform a search on selected games to find only > tactical exercises? My idea will be to remove previous moves, leaving only > current position and solution (plus perhaps original moves). > It is sufficient to look for Tactical

Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/7/12 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pascal Georges wrote: > > Hi! > > So I added an extra option in Annotation window that will append special >> comments and a flag to a game if some tactics are met : >> "d${depth}sc${score}psc$prevscore my_comment". >> For example "d5sc3.4

Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Michal Rudolf
Pascal Georges, sobota, 12 lipca 2008: >I commited in CVS the code for : >- tactics flagging (see annotation by engine). Only works for UCI engines. >- "find best move" menu command added under Play->training. It will go to >next flagged tactical position in game or base. As the solution is unique

Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Pascal Georges
I commited in CVS the code for : - tactics flagging (see annotation by engine). Only works for UCI engines. - "find best move" menu command added under Play->training. It will go to next flagged tactical position in game or base. As the solution is unique, the correctness of the solution is checked

Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Michal Rudolf
Pascal Georges, sobota, 12 lipca 2008: >It is not in CVS yet. I will put it today anyway, after some tests. So far >it seems promising, but I have difficulties using an engine to check whether >a solution is easy or not : if I limit depth, I may encounter strange scores >due to pending re-capture

Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/7/12 Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Pascal Georges, sobota, 12 lipca 2008: > > >> Probably the most improvements can be done with 4. - removing all the > >> obvious > >> tactics (recapturing piece, moving king from check when ahead in > material) > >> can help. > >Thanks for those hint

Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Michal Rudolf
Pascal Georges, sobota, 12 lipca 2008: >> Probably the most improvements can be done with 4. - removing all the >> obvious >> tactics (recapturing piece, moving king from check when ahead in material) >> can help. >Thanks for those hints, I implemented them. Is it in CVS? How can I test it? --

Re: [Scid-users] Tactics

2008-07-12 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/7/11 Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > 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

Re: [Scid-users] default path load/save

2008-07-12 Thread Henk van Lingen
>> (btw: how does one configure the default path load/save uses?) > > I do not quite understand, but if I get it right: start scid > from the directory for default load/save. Ie. first cd to > that dir, then fire up scid. For some reason I had: set initialDir(base) /tmp in .scid/config/options.