Re: [Scid-users] Scid for Android Tablet?

2024-07-06 Thread Benoit St-Pierre via Scid-users
Bummer. Then perhaps his PGN Master? It has been updated last month. B 6 juill. 2024 14:36 de stevec...@gmail.com: > Thanks but it won't install on the more recent versions of Android, says it > was made for an older version. > > On Sat, Jul 6, 2024, 11:29 AM Beno

Re: [Scid-users] Scid for Android Tablet?

2024-07-06 Thread Benoit St-Pierre via Scid-users
SCID on the Go was pretty great when I had a Droid tablet: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.scid.android Tell us how you like it! B 6 juill. 2024 14:27 de stevec...@gmail.com: > Leaving on a month-long trip tomorrow.  I play a running chess game with a > friend by email and

Re: [Scid-users] Is there some way of showing history of moves in Scid ?

2021-04-21 Thread Benoit St-Pierre via Scid-users
> Is there some way of showing history of moves in Scid ? Hello, To view the moves from the active game, open the PGN Window via the Windows Menu. Once open, the window should appear next to your chessboard. You can right-click on the tab (look for "notation") to move it to the top, bottom, left

Re: [Scid-users] SCID and Polyglot

2021-04-10 Thread Benoit St-Pierre via Scid-users
Woah: > Knowledge Base is the work of months carefully building a quality Polyglot database with analyzed positions by top engines, mainly by Stockfish 12 and Stockfish 13. The average quality of of the current 66 million analyzed positions is around ~3300 elo. The database contains a wealth of in

Re: [Scid-users] SCID on Twitter?

2021-02-08 Thread Benoit St-Pierre via Scid-users
Hello, There used to be one (@SCIDChess if memory serves well), but I deleted it. Users use the Wiki pages directly, and I prefer this mode of communication. Feel free to tweet about SCID! B ___ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Scid-users] Install Scid from source on macOS Catalina

2020-11-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Alan, Here's what the first draft looks like: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/MacOSCatalina/ If there are edits, you can send them to me by email or by commenting on the page. Thanks! B ___ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net

Re: [Scid-users] hashtable size?

2017-12-17 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, I think they're in MB: > Integer, Default: 16, Min: 1, Max: 1048576 > The amount of memory to use for the hash during search, specified in MB (megabytes). This number should be smaller than the amount of physical memory for your system. http://support.stockfishchess.org/kb/advanced-topics

Re: [Scid-users] Failing to compile SCIDvsPC on OpenBSD

2017-10-14 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, ScidVsPC is another project. Best, B -- Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot___ Sc

Re: [Scid-users] Show Coordinates icon missing in toolbar

2016-11-06 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, To show coordinates: (1) click on icon under the chessboard that shows three horizontal lines. It looks like the Heaven (Qian) trigram in Yi-King. (2) click on the icon at the right. It looks like two angles meeting to form a box. (3) click on "Show/Hide coords" https://sourceforge.net/p/

Re: [Scid-users] Bug Fix: piece tracker does not track multiple pieces

2016-09-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Thanks for the report, Lionel. Could you describe how you use the piece tracker? I've never used it, and I should update the documentation. -- ___ Scid-users mailing list Scid-us

Re: [Scid-users] Chess Engine Control

2016-08-31 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, >From my experience, this comes from the fact that the engine is switching to another line while you add the variation to your game analysis. Fulvio has written a report for the issue in the tracker: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/bugs/105/ Meanwhile, my own recommendation is to add your

Re: [Scid-users] no rank letters or file numbers on SCID game display?

2016-06-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> > It seems to be called 'nav burger' although the name is not very > intuitive: > https://www.newfangled.com/user-experience-mobile-menus-and-nav-burgers/ Brilliant. Thanks! I'd need a name for both the game navigation arrows and the nav burger. I'm thinking of something like the Board Menu,

Re: [Scid-users] no rank letters or file numbers on SCID game display?

2016-05-31 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, To toggle the board coordinates: (1) click on icon under the chessboard that shows three horizontal lines. It looks like the Heaven (Qian) trigram in Yi-King. (2) click on the icon at the right. It looks like two angles meeting to form a box. (3) click on "Show/Hide coords" *** I might

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-30 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Meaning the player not the computer then. Meaning an AI company can't enter an army of bots to automate everything through and through. -- What NetFlow Analyzer can do for you? Monitors network bandwidth and traffic patt

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-30 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Thank you for these interesting interviews, Nils! I've asked my Tournament Director for one qualifier of the current World Championship cycle and he confirmed my position: the ICCF only requires that the player is the one who plays the moves. As long as it the player is the captain of his own shi

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-25 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> I think the poster is asking where this is documented, if I am understanding it correctly. Rules work by restriction - unless there's a restriction, it's allowed. There is no restriction under the currect ICCF rules. Therefore, it's allowed. The same applies to chess documentation. > I was ref

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-25 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Strange - which document is it in? I couldn't find it. Exactly. The only restriction is that you are the one who plays the moves. Tournaments that forbid the use of chess engines will state it. I've heard that some postal events are still under the old code of honor, which also forbade document

Re: [Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-24 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Are you allowed to use computers to play correspondence chess? For ICCF competitions, yes: https://www.iccf.com/message?message=447 There are websites that forbid it, e.g.: http://www.schemingmind.com/ -- Mobile secur

[Scid-users] No News is Good News

2016-05-23 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, I am glad to report that since I've updated to the latest SCID version, I have yet to experience one single crash. Not. One. Single. Crash. And I'm using SCID every day extensively to play Correspondence Chess. This means there's a very powerful engine running all the time. There's at lea

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> 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

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> 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.") *** I have the impression you don't want to commit to my claim because you'd like a new format to be developed

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
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

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-11 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, Implementing 360 would require a complete revision of SCID format: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/AboutScidFormat/ The answer to your question, I'm afraid, is no, at least for a while. I think the ChessX project is trying to implement 360: http://chessx.sourceforge.net/ If you fin

Re: [Scid-users] reply

2015-11-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> In the old days (once long ago) the comment editor "cursor" could be "before" and "after" the current move. Yes, and I believe it led to a nighmarish behavior whereby as soon as you edited the game, the cursor was lost. Considering that correspondence players such as myself need LOTS of analysis

Re: [Scid-users] reply

2015-11-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> {Pre comment one} I stand corrected. One problem I see with writing comments like that in SCID is that you need to be sure of your line order, for as soon as you reorder them, the text need to be corrected too. In general, I advise against writing circumvoluted game commentaries. At least unti

Re: [Scid-users] reply

2015-11-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> This type of comment is not possible using Scid's comment editor Of course it is: [Event ""] [Site ""] [Date ".??.??"] [Round ""] [White ""] [Black ""] [Result "*"] 1.e4 e6 2.d4 d5 3.e5 c5 4.c3 Nc6 5.Nf3 Bd7 6.Be2 Nh6 7.O-O Nf5 8.Na3 Be7 9.Nc2 Rc8 10.Ne3 Nxe3 11.Bxe3 Qb6 12.a3 O-O 13.b4 T

Re: [Scid-users] reply

2015-11-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> It just seems like an easy addition that will make annotating much better. Fulvio can chime in, but I'm not sure it will be easy, since it seems to involve modifying the SCID format. Moreover, how this gets translated into PGN is far from obvious to me. Readability issues also surfaces when you

Re: [Scid-users] Scid help: Options not stored in ./scid/scidrc

2015-11-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello Jens, Assuming the file is in Options/Config, I've updated the wiki entry: > Under Win, the options file is scid.opt in /bin/config/options/options.dat. Under Unix systems (such as Solaris or Linux) the file is ~/.scid/config/options/options.dat. https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/TheOpti

Re: [Scid-users] How to Turn Off Loading of Example Games

2015-11-10 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Now I just need to figure out how to retain my layout. Unless I misunderstand what you need, Wayne, you should be able to do so by going to Options / Windows / Save Layout. Tell me if that works for you. B -- _

Re: [Scid-users] How to Turn Off Loading of Example Games

2015-11-09 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
I've updated this question to the wiki FAQ: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/AboutScidBases/ Not sure it's the right page, since the FAQ is rather experimental for now. Thank you for your question. -- Presto, an open

Re: [Scid-users] How to Turn Off Loading of Example Games

2015-11-09 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello James, Yes, there is a way to stop SCID from automatically loading a database at startup: 1. Open the Gamelist Window. 2. Click on the Book icon. 3. Rick click on the database you want to stop from loading at startup. 4. Uncheck "Load at Startup" Do the reverse if you want to load one or m

Re: [Scid-users] spelling.ssp file

2015-11-06 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> I'm wondering who is responsible for the spelling.ssp file. As far as I can recall, all the ssp files are courtesy of Franz Nagl, who compiles the names, the ELO, the players, the photos, everything. -- _

Re: [Scid-users] compiling scid 4.6.2 ( was ... *SOLVED* scid v4.5.1 clicking on a game in the gamelist window causes error.)

2015-11-05 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> But if a user thinks that the board icons are actual commands it will not click themwithout knowing the possible effects.Can this be the problem? It was for at least three users. A tool tip would be cool. > I thought pgnscid was too dangerous. Importing pgn files can be slow and if the process

Re: [Scid-users] *SOLVED* scid v4.5.1 clicking on a game in the gamelist window causes error.

2015-11-04 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> documentation under the help menu The documentation is deprecated for the most part, unless you're lucky. It will all be revised when the wiki will be done. I don't have that much time to edit anything, but I know that if I start editing the two hand in hand, it will become a nightmare. Editing

Re: [Scid-users] Flip board

2015-10-22 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Clemens, Click on the toolbar under the main board. A series of icons should appear. If you click on the one at the right, there's "Rotate", "Show/Hide coord", "Show/Hide material" and "Full Screen". Full Screen is rather cool, BTW.

Re: [Scid-users] New Game Shortcut in SCID 4.6.2

2015-09-20 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello again, The CTRL-X shortcut conflicts with the Cut shortcut of the operating system, at least under Win. I found this when trying to cut a comment from a game. *** Instead of CTRL-X, I suggest these three changes: (1) CTRL-N for New Game (2) CTRL-SHIFT-E for the Name Editor (3) CTRL-SHIFT

[Scid-users] New Game Shortcut in SCID 4.6.2

2015-09-10 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, I received this tweet this morning: > {@SCIDChess is there any possibility to make the shortcut for new game on scid 4.6 functional again? ;-) https://twitter.com/kragenweite/status/604526739050635265 This made me realize that indeed the Ctrl-X command does not work. After some trial an

Re: [Scid-users] Sorting database by date

2015-08-08 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello Jean, Fulvio's new Gamelist Window makes sorting a database deprecated. Since one can sort dynamically the database using the criterias of the Window, there's no need to sort them out the old way. In fact, even if you sorted them the old way, the order in your Gamelist Window would override

Re: [Scid-users] Error compiling scid 4.6.2

2015-07-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, I did not verify this information, but here's what the maintainer of ChessX reports this morning: > Sourceforge site has experienced a major crash and worse, the chessx svn repo has been inconsistently restored from backup. Please do not update your local working base from svn server if yo

Re: [Scid-users] [SPAM] To: joost t hart

2015-07-22 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Spam, most probably. Seems like bots stole F's email. -- Don't Limit Your Business. Reach for the Cloud. GigeNET's Cloud Solutions provide you with the tools and support that you need to offload your IT needs and focus on g

Re: [Scid-users] game list question

2015-06-29 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> in the game list window there's a column "rating" -- not the white and black ELO but just rating. what's it mean? am not finding any reference to it in the help system The help system is sorely out of date. Before rewriting it, SCID's wiki will need to be advanced. There's very little I ever

Re: [Scid-users] Looking for "Trial mode" on Scid 4.6 toolbar

2015-06-29 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> The trial mode is not one of the options on the toolbar. I checked with SCID 4.5 and can confirm this. The trial mode is not there anymore. There used to be a shortcut for this. (Can't recall which - "a"?) I'd have to do tests. *** > The trial mode is important because it is useful to run va

Re: [Scid-users] scid 4.6 loss of functionality

2015-06-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Board coordinates on/off is also missing Click on the toolbar under the main board. A series of icons should appear. See below. If you click on the one at the right, there's "Rotate", "Show/Hide coord", "Show/Hide material" and "Full Screen". Full Screen is rather cool, BTW. *** > no toolbar

Re: [Scid-users] Arrow key navigation?

2015-06-06 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, To use the arrow keys to navigate into a game, your mouse needs to hover the Main Window. When your mouse is elsewhere, say over the Gamelist, the arrows stop working. I think this behavior was in place in the previous versions, but I'm not sure. I mostly use mouse scrolls. For mouse scrol

[Scid-users] Analysis Window - Training Button

2015-06-01 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, As promised the other day, I revised the documentation covering the Analysis Window: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/TheAnalysisWindow/ The page starts to take shape. There are still lots of niggling details missing to complete the page, besides other pages to complete like the Annota

Re: [Scid-users] 4.6.1 - where is the navigation bar?

2015-05-31 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> I know this is a newbie question [...] Newbie questions are welcome. They indicate the parts of SCID that are more difficult for newcomers. Any constructive feedback can help improve SCID. *** > I'm looking for the naviation bar. Does this still exist on v4.6.1? Yes. Go in Options / Toolbar a

Re: [Scid-users] Scid 4.6.1 Issue

2015-05-29 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Oups. My last comment was posted in the wrong thread. Sorry. I might as well answer Luc, then! *** Luc, To complete Fulvio's answer, to add a comment before the very *first* move of a game: - load a game in the Main board - go back to before the first move ***using the arrows under the Main boa

Re: [Scid-users] Scid 4.6.1 Issue

2015-05-29 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Thanks, Fulvio! New users should beware that to prevent SCID from loading the example database, they need to: - go on the new Gamelist window; - click on Show/Hide databases (the book icon); - right-click over the example database; - unselect "Load at startup" Selecting "load at startup" will of

Re: [Scid-users] Database Maintenance on Ratings

2015-05-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello James, Yes, I think you should leave the rating field empty if you don't know the rating. You are point out what seems to be a terrible annoyance: > my games database got corrupted when I started entering both USCF and ELO ratings. What happened is that the W-Elo and B-Elo fields got myster

Re: [Scid-users] Database Maintenance on Ratings

2015-05-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
James, The only way I can think of right now to change at once all the ratings from ELO to USCF would be: - export your database in PGN - open the PGN file with a text editor, and - replace the text with a Search and Replace. I don't think of a way to tweak the ELO files. Other can chime in here

Re: [Scid-users] Variation Board

2015-05-10 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello Aref, At the bottom right of the Analysis window, there's an icon that looks like a chessboard. When the mouse hovers on it, "Show analysis board" appears." Click on it. You should see a small board appear at the right of the window. Is it something like you want? See here: https://source

Re: [Scid-users] Italian localization

2015-04-27 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Luciano, You're right: it seems that when you use the SCID installer, the tcl files are missing. I guess your choice of language modified the scid.gui file in the /bin subdirectory. The scid.gui file includes all the tcl code used by SCID. It can be changed the same way I suggested, I think. The

Re: [Scid-users] Italian localization

2015-04-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Luciano, Fulvio, I've written a short blurb explaining that it's possible to edit Tcl files: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/EditTclFiles/ This page has been linked here: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/Contribute/ Comments welcome. Especially, I'm suggesting people to send the file di

Re: [Scid-users] Photos of players? - Now it works!

2015-04-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Thanks for the feedback, Chris and Iwu I am playing in a correspondence chess championship right now and can only invest one evening per week. Sorry for the delays and all. I'd never thought I'd use SCID that much! Here are my responses. *** > I can't think of many programs that don't read thei

Re: [Scid-users] Italian localization

2015-04-23 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Yes! -- BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop May 6th at 10am PDT/1PM EDT Develop your own process in accordance with the BPMN 2 standard Learn Process modeling best practices with Bonita BPM through live exercises http://www.bo

Re: [Scid-users] Photos of players? - Now it works!

2015-04-19 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Werner, Iwu, I've finally got the time to reproduce the whole procedure and it made me rewrite the HowTo: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/HowToShowPlayersPhotos/ Seems that one needs to restart SCID for the images to appear. Also, the players' names files can be everywhere one wants, but not

Re: [Scid-users] Photos of players? - Now it works!

2015-04-14 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Werner, Okechukwu, Here's a wiki entry for How to Show the Players' Photos: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/HowToShowPlayersPhotos/ Tell me if that works for you. Best, Benoit -- BPM Camp - Free Virtual Workshop Ma

Re: [Scid-users] Wither ratings.ssp?

2015-04-11 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
If I may add an incentive to Franz, Europe-Échecs asked me over Twitter if we wanted to provide monthly ratings. They said they were using SCID to generate tournament tables. I think this kind of service could certainly be useful to the community, and even a source of revenue. As I see it, there c

Re: [Scid-users] Error when reopening a database after editing it

2015-04-10 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Janne, SCID 4.6.0 does not have a Sorting functionality in the Maintenance window anymore. Perhaps you could simply reorder the games using the new Gamelist window. By clicking one or two times on the Date line header, a "1" will appear and your games will be sorted according to the date. If you'

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 100, Issue 4

2015-04-10 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Alfred, You say: > Scid 4.6 I have problems whenever I filter games. Would you be more specific? I use SCID 4.6 every day a few hours a day since November, and I can filter whatever I please, and more. Note that with this new release, you can filter directly into the Gamelist Window. Click on t

Re: [Scid-users] Scid 4.6.0 Clipbase/copy bug

2015-03-08 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> If you start a new office document, make changes/additions, then Select All -> Copy, everything will go to the Clipboard. It it didn't, the Clipboard would be empty! The analog operation in SCID is to copy the content of the PGN window of an unsaved game to the Clipboard. This still works: if I

Re: [Scid-users] Chess Puzzles

2015-03-05 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Then I start the analysis engine but quickly cover up its output with another window. Right-clicking into the analysis window hides the analysis lines. A message "click here to see moves" should appear. Hiding the move can be triggered before the engine runs, so there's no need to click with o

Re: [Scid-users] bug report scid 4.6 alt-c in comment editor closes comment editor instead write polish letter 'ć'

2015-02-27 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
I've sent this email to Karol a few days ago: Hello Karol, Your wish has been fulfilled: > Removed alt+c and alt+s binding in "comment" window http://sourceforge.net/p/scid/code/ci/a635acf62e3b3259f1fb3772f07ffd6397352e88/ Fulvio has been pushing many other modifications to the code lately. T

Re: [Scid-users] TimeSeal

2015-02-19 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello Sebastian, Glad you like SCID 3.6! I don't think SCID's code comes with Timeseal. Looking back in the archives, I found this note by Alexander: You can find a list of binaries here http://www.unix-ag.uni-kl.de/~chess/soft/timeseal/ Note that there're no sources so you'll have to pick the

Re: [Scid-users] Problems compiling on Mac

2015-01-14 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello Ulrich, Sorry for the delay. I created a DMG a few months ago: https://github.com/bstp/ScidApp I don't know if this works for your. It works here, but I just updated to Yosemite. Can you test it? If anyone knows how to create a bundle, that would appreciated. People have asked me for thi

Re: [Scid-users] no sound in scid-4.4 in Mountain Lion

2013-10-09 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello again balu, I updated this wiki page, in case I need to answer that question again: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/HowToStartScid/ I corrected the information to better represent the fact that one does not need to add the file extension of SCID files. For PGN files, you need to add th

[Scid-users] Scid on the Web

2013-03-26 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, Here's what the **Links** page should look like, once the Markdown code is pasted into GitHub page: https://github.com/bstp/scid-on-the-web/wiki/Resources *** Here what the site could look like: http://bstp.github.com/scid-on-the-web/ There are other ready-made styles. *** This shoul

Re: [Scid-users] The Strange ECO Range of the Richter-Rauzer

2013-02-15 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, > Search for "B50-B59". You'll need a decent text editor though. It's a big > file. I use e.exe, Textmate and gedit. I could use vi, but these work for me. Perhaps I should have been clearer: how do I proceed **to commit the changes**? I know I could just change the diff to Fulvio, but

Re: [Scid-users] The Strange ECO Range of the Richter-Rauzer

2013-02-14 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Thanks, Steven, I stumbled upon what you're suggesting yesterday evening: > In the file tcl/search/header.tcl, changing the only occurence of B50-B59 to > B60-B69 is all that's needed i think. Indeed. Now, how should I proceed? *** > This looks to be a free form list, so you can probably add

[Scid-users] The Strange ECO Range of the Richter-Rauzer

2013-02-13 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, Here's a little "bug": 1. Click on Search, then Header. 2. Select the three dots near ECO codes: 3. Select Richter Rauzer. You should have everything from B50-59. The "bug" is that the Richter Rauzer starts at B60. The ECO range B50-56 covers quick alternatives: 1. e4 c5 2. Nf3 d6 1. e

Re: [Scid-users] Linux Flavor for Scid

2011-06-08 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
platform experienced the problem I > described in my earlier post about a week ago (comments disappearing while > browsing through variations)? > > --- On Tue, 5/31/11, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > >> From: Benoit St-Pierre >> Subject: Re: [Scid-users] Linux Flavor for Scid

Re: [Scid-users] Linux Flavor for Scid

2011-05-31 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Thanks for the info! I'll install Crunchbang later this evening. I just encountered Archbang. Does anyone have some experience with Archbang? -- Simplify data backup and recovery for your virtual environment with vRange

Re: [Scid-users] Linux Flavor for Scid

2011-05-31 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Linux Mint and Scid allowed me to finally abandon Windows. I note there is a Mint Xfce flavor: http://blog.linuxmint.com/?p=1725 Using only 250 meg RAM means more battery life and a stronger chess engine... Mint is said to be built on Debian, although I'm not sure I get any of the details: it

Re: [Scid-users] Linux Flavor for Scid

2011-05-31 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, Thank you for all your input. If anybody else wants to add his two cents, feel welcome. I feel that these testimonies can help the casual readers, since Scid is a great incentive to install Linux. (At least until there is a Scid for iPad!) So here are my first observations and experienc

[Scid-users] Linux Flavor for Scid

2011-05-29 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, I plan to buy a notebook to install Linux. The intention is to learn Python and toy with Scid. Which flavor do you suggest for a newbie like me? Which flavor do you suggest not to install to a newbie like me? Are there Linux flavors that works best for Scid? Thank you for your patient

Re: [Scid-users] Support for Chess960 or Fischer Random

2011-02-16 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
As far as I know, the rules of chess are directly encoded into Scid. If I am right, supporting Chess360 would mean a complete rewrite of the relevant functionalities. -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R

Re: [Scid-users] Sourceforge down?

2011-02-07 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Would the coders consider moving the project to something like GitHub? -- The ultimate all-in-one performance toolkit: Intel(R) Parallel Studio XE: Pinpoint memory and threading errors before they happen. Find and fix more

Re: [Scid-users] Database Switcher in Gamelist window ?

2011-01-19 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
One should read the tutorial by reading its introduction: http://www.benoitstpierre.info/scid/tutorial/introduction.html The index.html is really an index. -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn ab

Re: [Scid-users] Database Switcher in Gamelist window ?

2011-01-19 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Alex, > That's sad news. I counted on you here [tutorial]. Yes, I counted on me too :-( But the tests my Guinea pigs led me to the conclusion that I should rethink my idea. 1. This worked ok: http://www.benoitstpierre.info/scid/tutorial/ (It already needs a rehaul to include docking mode.) 2

Re: [Scid-users] Database Switcher in Gamelist window ?

2011-01-19 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Steven, > Pressing Control-D twice every time you want to use it is ok i guess.. but > for simplicity's sakes, imho hardcoding it into the gamelist is the best idea. But people might want to switch between db without being in the Gamelist window. And now we'd have to open the Gamelist window to

Re: [Scid-users] Database Switcher in Gamelist window ?

2011-01-18 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Alex, > Given your suggestion to stick to standards we would however add a "Windows" > menu for this. You just don't open another "window" like in your editor. Right: we already have one menu called Windows. I fail to see how this is relevant to our discussion. Let me try again. What I am sug

Re: [Scid-users] Database Switcher in Gamelist window ?

2011-01-18 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Alex, sometimes you should just keep reading: > So what is your point then? See just below the sentence you just commented. You're not commenting in good faith. This is tiresome. -- Protect Your Site and Customers from

Re: [Scid-users] Database Switcher in Gamelist window ?

2011-01-17 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> I want to switch between databases with one mouse-click. This may be no > "standard", but sorry I cannot live without it. I too like to switch with the Database Switcher. I am not suggesting that we remove the Switcher and build it into the menu. I am merely saying that merging games between da

Re: [Scid-users] Database Switcher in Gamelist window ?

2011-01-17 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Finally, maybe a repetition: scid is no editor or no webbrowser, it is a > database application. Semantics do not help here: GUI are becoming standardized. Here is one among many examples of what I am talking about: http://www.devon-technologies.com/products/devonthink/ Yes, there is a way t

Re: [Scid-users] Database Switcher in Gamelist window ?

2011-01-16 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
In contemporary GUI, these kinds of switchers are in a menu. Think editors, browsers, etc. -- Protect Your Site and Customers from Malware Attacks Learn about various malware tactics and how to avoid them. Understand mal

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-09 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Here are two videos on copyrights: http://blog.ted.com/2010/05/25/lessons_from_fa/ http://www.ted.com/talks/larry_lessig_says_the_law_is_strangling_creativity.html Let's hope that this'll convince Alex that videos can be instructive ;-) ---

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Chris, > Well, now I am wondering if it wouldn't be possible-- theory about > UUIDs notwithstanding-- to come up with procedures for group > contribution to ensure higher quality? So, instead of adding > willy-nilly, try to prevent the "garbage in?" I agree with you: we need to prevent garbage in

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, You're right in saying that I am hinting at something like a combination of unique and natural keys. Never thought of that. I believe the smart duplicate detection problem is not solvable, at least not in a logical way. We need reality to tell us at what move Bardeleben exactly resigned

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> unique IDs to ensure a *high-quality* cannot be achieved. How should the ID > be calculated? The ID is simply given and maintained by the database facility. In relational database theory, I believe that to have unique IDs is axiomatic. I am not sure that it's possible to have relational datab

Re: [Scid-users] Printing Diagrams

2011-01-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Do you mean the "Tools->Capture Current Board" feature ? It works fine for > me.. but requires the "TkImg" package for png support. Yes, I mean this feature. I do not think it comes with the compiled versions of Scid for Win and Mac. Someone who does not know about LaTeX should find it strang

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-02 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
This project dates to the days me and Alex were arguing with Pascal for the need to add unique IDs to games. Pascal said that adding IDs to games would slow Scid too much. Without unique IDs, trying to have a *high-quality* database is way to error-prone to my own taste. If we can design some ob

[Scid-users] Printing Diagrams

2011-01-01 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, A friend of mine is using Scid to work on studies and would like to be able to print chess diagrams from Scid. My own solution is to print the window from the OS, but it does not work well for him. I presume that there are no facility currently for this. Am I correct? If so, I would lik

Re: [Scid-users] copying games from scid - ctrl-c does not work as expected

2011-01-01 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Alexander completed my sentence: > If the game list window is active, copying the active game. It copies the active game in the Clipboard. Perhaps this is what we would like Scid to do in every context. When I am in the Database Manager Window, I can click on the Clipbase and do stuff. For ins

Re: [Scid-users] Scid should accept default choice of variation

2010-12-31 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Have you tried in Options->Moves to uncheck "Show variations window" and > enable "Show Arrows for Variations"? This should make one or two tips. I would have loved to see that a few months ago. Thanks! -- Learn how

Re: [Scid-users] copying games from scid - ctrl-c does not work as expected

2010-12-31 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Yes, Joost, I was merely repeating what Axel said, with the os made explicit. In Mac, I can't select the text. *** To make sure the CTRL-C works, we would have to make sure what window or element is currently active. If the active window is the PGN window, copying the game makes sense. If the g

Re: [Scid-users] copying games from scid - ctrl-c does not work as expected

2010-12-31 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Under Windows, I can select the PGN text in the PGN window and copy it with CTRL-C. Under Mac, I can't (because of portability issues, I believe), so I need to go into Edit/Copy to Clipboard. Under Linux, I really can't say. -- http://lapartiedujour.blogspot.com ---

Re: [Scid-users] Scid should accept default choice of variation

2010-12-29 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
I do not understand why there is a need for a modal window. We already have the Game Information Area. And, if that's not enough, we have the PGN window. -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows c

Re: [Scid-users] A database for Xiangqi?

2010-12-17 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
I too would love a Xianqi database. Sadly I am no programmer. But I thought Xiangqi players did not care much about openings. Something like http://www.01xq.com is good enough for me. It only took one programmer to create Scid. Too bad Shane did not think of creating a tool extendable to an infin

Re: [Scid-users] Running SCID from a flash/removable drive?

2010-12-16 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Yes, at least the last time I tried. -- pfff.ca -- Lotusphere 2011 Register now for Lotusphere 2011 and learn how to connect the dots, take your collaborative environment to the next level, and enter the era of Social B

Re: [Scid-users] Loosing comments unless stored

2010-11-16 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Thanks! Some people I know don't like to CTRL anything. They will be happy. On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:26 AM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > On 11/16/10 16:57, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > Hi! > >> Speaking of the Comment Editor: >> >> I would like to be able to ri

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