Re: [Scid-users] Building Opening Books

2009-01-14 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
>> Thank you very much in advance for your help, > > Hope that helps a bit. Yes, it does. I will try to write something out of this after my bad flu. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge

[Scid-users] ICOfy Base

2009-01-14 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, I just stumbled upon this project : http://icofybase.sourceforge.net/ Since I have seen this name from screenshots, this is a know resource. Now here are some questions : + is it of reliable quality ? + if so, wouldn't it be nice to have that resource into our links.html page ? + how

Re: [Scid-users] Naum4 and "play serious game" in SCID - not working

2009-01-14 Thread Christos Gitsis
Στις Wed, 14 Jan 2009 15:43:13 -0500 Ο/Η "Benoit St-Pierre" έγραψε: > I prefer Alexander's answer by far. > > -- > This SF.net email is sponsored by: > SourcForge Community > SourceForge wants to tell your story. > http:

Re: [Scid-users] Naum4 and "play serious game" in SCID - not working

2009-01-14 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
I prefer Alexander's answer by far. -- This SF.net email is sponsored by: SourcForge Community SourceForge wants to tell your story. http://p.sf.net/sfu/sf-spreadtheword ___ Scid

Re: [Scid-users] Naum4 and "play serious game" in SCID - not working

2009-01-14 Thread Alexander Wagner
Roy Brunjes wrote: Hi! > I checked with the Naum4 author and he says this is a bug > in SCID -- he says SCID does not sent the 'uci' command to > the engine when starting a serious game... > > Can you confirm and if so, can a fix be developed? To shed some light on the issue, I tried the free N

Re: [Scid-users] Promotions not handled properly when promotion piece is uppercase

2009-01-14 Thread Pascal Georges
2009/1/14 Roy Brunjes > I have discovered that promotions are not handled properly when the > promotion piece is in upper case (i.e. d2d1Q). It appears that the UCI > protocol does not force lower or upper case for the promotion piece so some > engines use lower and some use upper case. > UCI pr

Re: [Scid-users] Naum4 and "play serious game" in SCID - not working

2009-01-14 Thread Pascal Georges
2009/1/14 Roy Brunjes > Hi, > > I checked with the Naum4 author and he says this is a bug in SCID -- he > says SCID does not sent the 'uci' command to the engine when starting a > serious game... > > Can you confirm and if so, can a fix be developed? > It does. Scid can play a "serious game" wit

Re: [Scid-users] Any way to make pieces look nicer when board is very large?

2009-01-14 Thread Alexander Wagner
Roy Brunjes wrote: Hi! > Thank you!! I did not know about Merida1 and Merida2 (and that I would > need to install the libtk-img package). Merida1 looks very nice with a > large board! You'll notice that you got a lot of new themes with libtk-img. Difference between merida1 and 2 are mainly if

Re: [Scid-users] some basic proposals.

2009-01-14 Thread Pascal Georges
2009/1/14 Alexander Wagner > Pascal Georges wrote: > > Hi! > >Should we try to move all colouring into varialbes and >> source their values from some external file? >>I don't want to have too many config files. >> >> >>Why not? Files are for free, no extra cost i

Re: [Scid-users] Any way to make pieces look nicer when board is very large?

2009-01-14 Thread Pascal Georges
2009/1/14 Roy Brunjes > When I make the board very large, the merida pieces have jagged edges (ok, > at least not smooth edges) to them. Is there anything I can do to make those > look smoother? > Use Merida1 or Merida2 piece sets. Pascal

Re: [Scid-users] Any way to make pieces look nicer when board is very large?

2009-01-14 Thread Alexander Wagner
Roy Brunjes wrote: Hi! > When I make the board very large, the merida pieces have jagged edges > (ok, at least not smooth edges) to them. Is there anything I can do to > make those look smoother? Did you try Merida1 or Merida2? Those are rendered as pgn with more colours and they look much ni

Re: [Scid-users] Building Opening Books

2009-01-14 Thread Alexander Wagner
Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! > 1. Can I use Scid to build opening books that can use chess engines ? > >>From what I gather, there is no standard way to represent opening > books. Right. Allmost every app uses its own format. > I know that GNUchess uses a simple .pgn file. This is inefficient

Re: [Scid-users] some basic proposals.

2009-01-14 Thread Alexander Wagner
Pascal Georges wrote: Hi! >Should we try to move all colouring into varialbes and >source their values from some external file? > I don't want to have too many config files. > > > Why not? Files are for free, no extra cost involved. > > In this specific

[Scid-users] Naum4 and "play serious game" in SCID - not working

2009-01-14 Thread Roy Brunjes
Hi, I checked with the Naum4 author and he says this is a bug in SCID -- he says SCID does not sent the 'uci' command to the engine when starting a serious game... Can you confirm and if so, can a fix be developed? Thanks, Roy - Forwarded Message From: Naum Chess To: Roy Brunjes

[Scid-users] Promotions not handled properly when promotion piece is uppercase

2009-01-14 Thread Roy Brunjes
I have discovered that promotions are not handled properly when the promotion piece is in upper case (i.e. d2d1Q). It appears that the UCI protocol does not force lower or upper case for the promotion piece so some engines use lower and some use upper case. Can SCID be enhanced to support promo