Re: [Scid-users] Tablebases support

2008-08-20 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/8/20 Michal Rudolf <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ChessX has support for online EGTB. Maybe it can be used in Scid as well? > Yes, that's great, but : - does Shredder allow the use of this service from other products than their own ? - the code depends upon an external resource and it may change wi

Re: [Scid-users] SCID 3.6.25 : cannot run Rybka3 64-bit engine with microwine

2008-08-20 Thread Pascal Georges
I had the same crashes due to a bug in Rybka's command line parser. I corrected it in CVS, and now Rybka 3 1-CPU works for me, but maybe the MP version has other bugs that would need workarounds. So you should look at data exchanges between Scid and Rybka, reproduce them on command line and get Ryb

[Scid-users] SCID 3.6.25 : cannot run Rybka3 64-bit engine with microwine

2008-08-20 Thread Roy Brunjes
I am tryng to run a 64-bit Rybka 3 via microwine using SCID on my Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit system. When I start Rybka3 it crashes. Microwine and rybka3 run fine in a terminal window. Any hints as to how to get this working are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Roy

[Scid-users] SCID 3.6.25 : Rybka3 can no longer run 2 engines on dual core system - why?

2008-08-20 Thread Roy Brunjes
I've broken something but I cannot figure out what. Sure, my hash table limitations continue, but now when I try to run the multi-cpu version of Rybka3, 'top' shows that two engines start but quickly only one engine goes away. Is there a log file I can look into to see what error message(s) ma

Re: [Scid-users] Tablebases support

2008-08-20 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/8/20 PeteVine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi, > > I've just tried the newsest scid under your stewardship :) I must admit > the changes are impressive compared to the last version I've been using > (3.5) and are going in the right direction. Among the > enhancements however one thing is sorely miss

Re: [Scid-users] Tablebases support

2008-08-20 Thread Michal Rudolf
PeteVine, środa, 20 sierpnia 2008: >Hi, > >I've just tried the newsest scid under your stewardship :) I must admit >the changes are impressive compared to the last version I've been using >(3.5) and are going in the right direction. Among the >enhancements however one thing is sorely missing and I

[Scid-users] Tablebases support

2008-08-20 Thread PeteVine
Hi, I've just tried the newsest scid under your stewardship :) I must admit the changes are impressive compared to the last version I've been using (3.5) and are going in the right direction. Among the enhancements however one thing is sorely missing and I mean 6 piece (or even more for the futur

Re: [Scid-users] Mask on Tree

2008-08-20 Thread Pascal Georges
> This works well now. How is the line break handled here? > (Maybe I should start to shut up ;) Sometimes I use things > like: > > -- > Points to remember >* ... >* ... >* ... > -- > > whe

Re: [Scid-users] Mask on Tree

2008-08-20 Thread Alexander Wagner
Pascal Georges wrote: Hi! >> I did not import it from some file. So the () was passed >> along from the text widget. My immediate idea was "some >> problem with escaping a special char"? > > I tried weird characters without problem. Seems to be gone. Maybe just some bit that needed to rotten do

Re: [Scid-users] Scid and Rybka 3

2008-08-20 Thread Michal Rudolf
Alexander Wagner, środa, 20 sierpnia 2008: >Still I'm not sure about the automagic guess, ie. if it is really >userfriendly it Scid guesses only once or if it guesses all the time. I think once is enough - this solves the case for newbie and does not break anything for more advanced users. >The

Re: [Scid-users] Mask on Tree

2008-08-20 Thread Alexander Wagner
Hi! >> Actually, as I'm about to add lines manually I did not >> have the chance to really feel it, but I already fastened >> the seat belts :) > > Beware that Mask format is evolving, and I will not handle > backward compatibility before final release. So expect to > lose your work each time I

Re: [Scid-users] Mask on Tree

2008-08-20 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/8/20 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi! > > I reworked Mask view >>>Looks very promising promising, indeed! :) >>> >>> Hope you appreciated the speed up : 1 % ! Note that >> Mask info menu gives stats on hashes that will be removed >> later. >> > > Actually, as I