Re: [Scid-users] Analysis and mate

2010-11-07 Thread Joost 't Hart
On 11/07/2010 11:11 PM, Joost 't Hart wrote: > Hi, > > I found a nuisance with stockfish 1.6.2 and Scid's analysis mode. > > I analyzed the following beginners game: > > 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nc6 3.Qh5 {Patzer} Nf6 4.Nf3 {Friend mode after all} h6 > > If stockfish meets the forced mate it will stop thinki

[Scid-users] Analysis and mate

2010-11-07 Thread Joost 't Hart
Hi, I found a nuisance with stockfish 1.6.2 and Scid's analysis mode. I analyzed the following beginners game: 1.e4 e5 2.Bc4 Nc6 3.Qh5 {Patzer} Nf6 4.Nf3 {Friend mode after all} h6 If stockfish meets the forced mate it will stop thinking at "depth = 100" and produce a "bestmove" rightaway. I f

Re: [Scid-users] Dream Cheeky USB chess board

2010-11-07 Thread Ben Hague
On Sat, 2010-11-06 at 15:37 +0100, Joost 't Hart wrote: > On 11/06/2010 02:13 AM, Jerry K wrote: > > Hi, > > You may want to catch up with Ben directly... > > But what I learned from the source code: > > This driver cannot be compiled for windows out of the box, because it > uses the high lev

Re: [Scid-users] Computer annotation issue

2010-11-07 Thread Matthew Twomey
On Nov 6, 2010, at 13:00, "Joost 't Hart" wrote: > On 11/06/2010 06:33 PM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > > Hi, > >> On 10/27/10 19:06, Daniel Karlsson wrote: >> >> Hi! >> >> >>> Browsing through the source, I found a code snippet which appears to >>> remove annotations for "dead" games. This mi

Re: [Scid-users] Can't move to the very end of game listing

2010-11-07 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "AW" == Alexander Wagner writes: AW> If the gamelist widget shows all full lines, at least it works AW> for me. If I understand it right, it doesn't work for me. AW> I admit I've no immediate solution to this. This very widget is AW> not trivial especially if you have to

Re: [Scid-users] Writing dot in the repertoire editor flips the board

2010-11-07 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "AW" == Alexander Wagner writes: AW> The fix is immediate, but to make it general in all entry fields AW> requires some work. I can look into this, note taken. OK, thanks. I haven't meet the problem anywhere outside the repertoire editor so it's probably a low priority issue. -

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire editor always uses English in notation

2010-11-07 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
I think I was the last person on Earth who used the repertoire editor. I stopped. So I second the idea to remove the repertoire editor. If we want something like the repertoire editor, I suggest that Scid provides a search facility with an opening file, be it in PGN format or Scid format. That

Re: [Scid-users] Why is czech.tcl encoded in ISO 8859-2 and not UTF-8?

2010-11-07 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "MR" == Michał Rudolf writes: MR> I think this is not a solution because: MR> * for power-users it is easier to convert to UTF-8 (and how many MR> power users Scid has?) MR> * it is too ugly and too complicated for power user. Although I use exactly the workaround propose

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire editor always uses English in notation

2010-11-07 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "AW" == Alexander Wagner writes: AW> Mainly cause tree based masks seem to offer a better AW> implementation of repertoir handling. Are you aware of that AW> function? Oh, I wasn't! It took me a while until I've found it's available when I undock the tree window. AW> How

Re: [Scid-users] Loosing comments unless stored

2010-11-07 Thread Milan Zamazal
> "AW" == Alexander Wagner writes: > "PG" == Pascal Georges writes: AW> I think it was always like now and you had to press the store AW> button. PG> Not exactly. And additionally the current help says: You can edit comments by typing in the text area provided and using

Re: [Scid-users] Loosing comments unless stored

2010-11-07 Thread Michał Rudolf
Dnia 2010-11-07, nie o godzinie 13:21 +0100, Pascal Georges pisze: > > I think it was always like now and you had to press the store button. > > Not exactly. It used to auto-store changes but this had bad side > effects. I think a trace of this can be found in the changelog. For sure it was auto

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire editor always uses English in notation

2010-11-07 Thread Pascal Georges
2010/11/7 Alexander Wagner : > On 11/06/2010 07:08 PM, Milan Zamazal wrote: > > Hi! > >> Current Scid from CVS; GNU/Linux >> >> The repertoire editor doesn't respect language setting in the displayed >> moves and always uses English piece letters.  E.g. when my selected >> language is Czech, the re

Re: [Scid-users] Loosing comments unless stored

2010-11-07 Thread Pascal Georges
2010/11/7 Alexander Wagner : > On 11/06/2010 06:48 PM, Milan Zamazal wrote: > > Hi! > >> Current Scid from CVS; GNU/Linux >> >> When I write or edit a comment in the comment editor and then jump to >> another move without pressing Store button, my comment gets lost without >> any warning.  IIRC muc

Re: [Scid-users] Why is czech.tcl encoded in ISO 8859-2 and not UTF-8?

2010-11-07 Thread Michał Rudolf
Dnia 2010-11-07, nie o godzinie 11:43 +0100, Alexander Wagner pisze: Well, an apparently easy solution is to set the LOCAL for the scid > startup environment. THIS is easy on Unix and AFAIK(! I don't do DOS for > a very long time now) impossible on Windows. > How about something like > export LA

Re: [Scid-users] Loosing comments unless stored

2010-11-07 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/06/2010 06:48 PM, Milan Zamazal wrote: Hi! > Current Scid from CVS; GNU/Linux > > When I write or edit a comment in the comment editor and then jump to > another move without pressing Store button, my comment gets lost without > any warning. IIRC much older Scid versions used to store comm

Re: [Scid-users] Can't move to the very end of game listing

2010-11-07 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/06/2010 08:39 PM, Milan Zamazal wrote: Hi! > JH> I have many dbases of various sizes (including a HUGE test dbase > JH> - with many dups - of over 16M games) and never saw this > JH> problem. > > Thanks for testing. After some additional experiments I've found that > the

Re: [Scid-users] Writing dot in the repertoire editor flips the board

2010-11-07 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/06/2010 07:22 PM, Joost 't Hart wrote: Hi! >> Current Scid from CVS; GNU/Linux >> >> I open the repertoire editor and write comments in it. Whenever I write >> a dot in the comments, the board in the main window gets flipped. >> > > Confirmed. A funny one :-) The dot is a global shortcut

Re: [Scid-users] Repertoire editor always uses English in notation

2010-11-07 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/06/2010 07:08 PM, Milan Zamazal wrote: Hi! > Current Scid from CVS; GNU/Linux > > The repertoire editor doesn't respect language setting in the displayed > moves and always uses English piece letters. E.g. when my selected > language is Czech, the repertoire shows taking by bishop on c3 as

Re: [Scid-users] Why is czech.tcl encoded in ISO 8859-2 and not UTF-8?

2010-11-07 Thread Alexander Wagner
On 11/06/2010 09:39 PM, Michał Rudolf wrote: Hi! > Dnia 2010-11-06, sob o godzinie 20:46 +0100, Milan Zamazal pisze: >> The Czech translation file is encoded in ISO 8859-2 which means that all >> Scid translated texts are displayed incorrectly in standard UTF-8 >> environment. When I convert the