Re: [Scid-users] Problems installing under Ubuntu

2010-04-07 Thread Joost 't Hart
Pau Simó wrote: Hi! > Hi Guys, > > I'm trying to install Scid in my computer running under Ubuntu. I'm > having some problems I hope you can help to fix. > After downloading all the files, > I'm using the ./configure command successfully, but when using the > Make I'm having some problems. Belo

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

2010-04-07 Thread Dale Hards
An excellent place to start is ICOFY - http://sourceforge.net/projects/icofybase/ - it is an open source collection of chess games, although many of them are weaker games. You could always filter out all games of less than 2200 ELO points per player though. I find it best to combine ICOFY with all

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

2010-04-07 Thread Tim Ailes
My webpage has links to some places to get pgn files etc www.botchvinik.netrcs.com/chess.htm Magnus Larsson wrote: Hi again! Concerning databases: any suggestions on where to find good collections to download and play with? Googling for it mostly gives me online databases, like http://chesso

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

2010-04-07 Thread Magnus Larsson
Hi again! Concerning databases: any suggestions on where to find good collections to download and play with? Googling for it mostly gives me online databases, like http://chessopeningsdatabase.com/ Best, Magnus Dale Hards wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Magnus Larsson

[Scid-users] Material search bug?

2010-04-07 Thread Michal Rudolf
I noticed that Scid does not find games with no moves even if starting position matches the pattern. For example, this game is not found when looking for knight endgames: [Event "45. It"] [Site "Reggio Emilia ITA"] [Date "2003.01.01"] [Round "4"] [White "Scalcione, Michelangelo"] [Black "Tomescu

[Scid-users] Problems installing under Ubuntu

2010-04-07 Thread Pau Simó
Hi Guys, I'm trying to install Scid in my computer running under Ubuntu. I'm having some problems I hope you can help to fix. After downloading all the files, I'm using the ./configure command successfully, but when using the Make I'm having some problems. Below you can find a copypaste, it is in

Re: [Scid-users] Windows toga error ?

2010-04-07 Thread j.f.r
W dniu 07-04-2010 10:40, Steven pisze: > Hi, > > Attached is a game that seems to give toga head-aches. > Browse to the game end, and run toga. It wants to move Kb8 instead of the > obvious Rxd7. The funny thing is, it's only in windows. > Under linux there's no problem. > Can anyone verify this ?

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

2010-04-07 Thread Magnus Larsson
Hi! Thanks. I thought I was working in a scid database, but it turned out that I was using the pgn-file. Magnus Alexander Wagner wrote: > Magnus Larsson wrote: > > Hi! > >> Great, now it works. I see your point about too large database too. >> As I am new to opening training with a datab

[Scid-users] Windows toga error ?

2010-04-07 Thread Steven
Hi, Attached is a game that seems to give toga head-aches. Browse to the game end, and run toga. It wants to move Kb8 instead of the obvious Rxd7. The funny thing is, it's only in windows. Under linux there's no problem. Can anyone verify this ? I haven't looked at the toga code yet, or have the