> Neither I like that a new format will be developed, nor I don't like
this, for
me it doesn't matter, my comments are only hints, and are intended to be
neutral. It's about the developers of Scid whether they want to support
Chess960, or if they don't want.
Fair enough.
It seems that your ScidB
> I have the impression you don't want to commit to my claim because you'd
> like a new format to be developed.
>
> That is, "SCID as we currently know it" could comprise a new format - .si5.
>
> Am I correct?
Neither I like that a new format will be developed, nor I don't like this, for
me it
> I cannot say yes or no to this.
I think you did, with the ".si4 cannot be used for Chess960," since SCID as
we currently know it uses .si4.
(I've corrected "Chess360" to "Chess960.")
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I have the impression you don't want to commit to my claim because you'd
like a new format to be developed
I hav been using the scid setup board window to input chess problems from
books and save them to an epd file. One thing that would make this easier
would be to change the clear fen button to copy fen. I have not been able
to think of a good reason to have a clear fen function here, so it should
not
> I think we can agree that for someone who's looking to play or study 360,
> SCID as we currently know it is not the tool.
I cannot say yes or no to this. As I stated, Chess960 support needs a lot of
work, but it is possible, and without modifications of the move encoding. But a
new database ve
Thank you for your comments, Gregor.
When you say that
> support of Chess960 is possible, but a more suitable database format would
> be
> desirable for this.
>
you're restating the fact that to implement 360 properly, the SCID format
would need to be revised.
I'll revise the "require" (it was
Hi Benoit,
please allow me me to spend some words about the Scid format and his
capabilities, I have excellent knowledge about this format, and about the
development of chess database formats in general.
> Implementing 360 would require a complete revision of SCID format:
No, it wouldn't, the
