Re: [Scid-users] Playing online

2008-10-12 Thread pgeorges
You need to install snack package to get sound. Pascal Gene Venable a écrit : > Yes, thanks. I had to figure out how to use timeseal, but it was easy. Now I > need sound, which is essential if you play 1-minute chess like I do. So I > need to install Snack? I downloaded it but am not sure what

Re: [Scid-users] Playing online

2008-10-12 Thread Gene Venable
Yes, thanks. I had to figure out how to use timeseal, but it was easy. Now I need sound, which is essential if you play 1-minute chess like I do. So I need to install Snack? I downloaded it but am not sure what to do now. Alternately, I could have got Snack when I installed Tcl? How do I know, a

Re: [Scid-users] Playing online

2008-10-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, You are being connected automatically to FICS : the Free Internet Chess Server : www.freechess.org I hope this responds to your question, Good luck, Benoit On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 3:47 PM, Gene Venable <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I've just installed the latest Scid and tried to play o

[Scid-users] Playing online

2008-10-12 Thread Gene Venable
I've just installed the latest Scid and tried to play on the Free Internet Chess Server, but after picking Play and Internet and entering my name and password, I don't see where to specify the server. I looked at the Scid sourceforge site and didn't see the answer to my question. -

Re: [Scid-users] Doc: Questions / Status

2008-10-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Alex, I am happy to see that we're agreeing on everything, then. * Here what could look the kind of translation I have in mind : > More information is provided in the href="pgn-window.html"> PGN Window help page. Can be reduced to > More information is provided in the PGN window help pag

Re: [Scid-users] Doc: Questions / Status

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Wagner
Pascal Georges wrote: Hi! > Sorry, I do not get it. Even tried at the living object. If > I check "Win won game" and I have a "mate in 3" situation, > make the first move the computer moves and I've to finish > the game ie. make all moves till mate. If I uncheck the box, > the

Re: [Scid-users] Doc: Questions / Status

2008-10-12 Thread Pascal Georges
> Sorry, I do not get it. Even tried at the living object. If > I check "Win won game" and I have a "mate in 3" situation, > make the first move the computer moves and I've to finish > the game ie. make all moves till mate. If I uncheck the box, > the same is necessary. What do I wrong? I do not se

Re: [Scid-users] Doc: Questions / Status

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Wagner
Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! >> Till yestereve we had Play / Training / Openings. Joe User comes >> along, "Ah, an opening trainer, interesting! Lets try that >> thing." An there Joe is lost. Not even the ChangeLog said a > > Interesting example. Joe Trainer would never access to > your modified

Re: [Scid-users] Doc: Questions / Status

2008-10-12 Thread Pascal Georges
> Sorry, I do not get it. Even tried at the living object. If > I check "Win won game" and I have a "mate in 3" situation, > make the first move the computer moves and I've to finish > the game ie. make all moves till mate. If I uncheck the box, > the same is necessary. What do I wrong? I do not se

Re: [Scid-users] Doc: Questions / Status

2008-10-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Till yestereve we had Play / Training / Openings. Joe User comes along, "Ah, an opening trainer, interesting! Lets try that thing." An there Joe is lost. Not even the ChangeLog said a word about what is required for it and the help page (accessible once you got it up...) only explained the statis

Re: [Scid-users] Doc: Questions / Status

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Wagner
Alexander Wagner wrote: Hi! It seems to be done. Mostly. However, I did not hook up new sections into the code yet, so some information may not yet be available in a context sensitive manner. However I hooked up all of them to the help index, so every section should be accessible from there somet

Re: [Scid-users] Bug(?): Book tuning

2008-10-12 Thread pgeorges
Alexander Wagner a écrit : > > Oh. This is not one of Scids default books? Ok, maybe then it was done > with an older version of Polyglot. Sorry. I thought it was in the > package. Maybe it's from Jose then. I cross checked with other books > and you're right. I could send it to you tomorrow if

[Scid-users] Bug(?): Scid Score graph

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Wagner
Hi! From the ChangeLog 3.6.19: - added an option in the score graph window : if the scores are not related to white's point of view, it is possible to check either "white" or "black" option to get a correct display (Thanks to Uwe Klimmek) Indeed, score graph options allo

Re: [Scid-users] Bug(?): Book tuning

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Wagner
Pascal Georges wrote: Hi! > Anyway, all this sums up to 100%. Fine. Now, I change e4, > say I want e4 to be played more often. So I set it to 25. > Ups. Now the sum is larger than 100% as no other value > changes. Is this a good idea? Shouldn't the other values > decreas pro

Re: [Scid-users] Bug(?): Book tuning

2008-10-12 Thread Pascal Georges
2008/10/11 Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Hi! > > If I open Tools / Book tuning, select the start position > using e.g. DanCorbit-Large.bin as book (just to get a > reproducable sample) I get the following list: > > d481 > Nf3 10 > c4 8 > e4 1 > g3 0 > b3 0 > > I gues

Re: [Scid-users] Doc: Questions / Status

2008-10-12 Thread Alexander Wagner
Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! > Here is why I stopped working on help.tcl : > > Almost all pages are too long. Topics need tightening. > Information suffers from being outdated. > > Well, we just can not have 1000 features and absoultely no > comment how to use them. This is not poss