Re: [Scid-users] NAG - What does a red "D" mean?

2014-11-01 Thread Fred Mellender
Thanks. SCID is a wonderful program: just about the most useful freeware on my computer. On Sat, Nov 1, 2014 at 1:24 PM, Ben St-Pierre wrote: > ​Hello Fred, > > I've submitted the bug: > > https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/bugs/69/ > > One day, I'll be able to fix this kind of issues, but for now

Re: [Scid-users] NAG - What does a red "D" mean?

2014-11-01 Thread Ben St-Pierre
​Hello Fred, I've submitted the bug: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/bugs/69/ One day, I'll be able to fix this kind of issues, but for now I can barely manage the clerical needs of the SCID project. Thank you for your patience, Ben​ -

Re: [Scid-users] NAG - What does a red "D" mean?

2014-11-01 Thread Fred Mellender
It seems to me that SCID should output the NAG, not a "D", which is not a defined symbol in any source I can find. Thus the line should be: 7. Bxc6 Bxc6 $201 Not 7. Bxc6 Bxc6 D To quote from http://www.thechessdrum.net/PGN_Reference.txt -

Re: [Scid-users] Chess Engine (UCI) parameters

2014-11-01 Thread Alan Whiteman
I believe that scidvspc can host computer vs computer tournaments. On 11/01/2014 07:06 AM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote: > On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 02:31 +, jkex...@comcast.net wrote: >> This is not a SCID question, but I am wondering... >> >> 1. Does anyone know if it is possible to restrict a chess eng

Re: [Scid-users] Chess Engine (UCI) parameters

2014-11-01 Thread Shawn K. Quinn
On Fri, 2014-10-31 at 02:31 +, jkex...@comcast.net wrote: > This is not a SCID question, but I am wondering... > > 1. Does anyone know if it is possible to restrict a chess engines > analysis to white-only or black-only? > 2. Does anyone know of a resource/webpage that lists the valid > parame

Re: [Scid-users] Chess Engine (UCI) parameters

2014-11-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:51:40PM -0400, Fred Mellender wrote: > UCI protocol: http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/UCIProtocol.html > > For what it is worth, I wrote a program that lets you pit one UCI engine > against another. It is free, a Windows program, "Chess Speak", at > https://sites.google.

Re: [Scid-users] Chess Engine (UCI) parameters

2014-11-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 02:31:27AM +, jkex...@comcast.net wrote: > This is not a SCID question, but I am wondering... > > 1. Does anyone know if it is possible to restrict a chess engines > analysis to white-only or black-only? 2. Does anyone know of a > resource/webpage that lists the valid

Re: [Scid-users] NAG - What does a red "D" mean?

2014-11-01 Thread Chris Bannister
On Fri, Oct 31, 2014 at 12:50:18AM +, jkex...@comcast.net wrote: > I see in SCID's doc under "Standard NAG Values" value 201 = Diagram: D or # Interesting. I see, according to: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Numeric_Annotation_Glyphs that values 147 - 219 are not defined. As you can see, NAG 22

Re: [Scid-users] NAG - What does a red "D" mean?

2014-11-01 Thread Fred Mellender
I've been meaning to report this as a bug for a long time: When I use SCID to export an analyzed game (to pgn), with comments and variations, it includes the "D", as in: 7. Bxc6 Bxc6 D This is not valid pgn and fails accurate parsers. Either the D should be enclosed in "{}", or deleted from t