I'm curious about the use (or not) of the game list window. I use it
all the time. I'm trying to figure out how one could use Scid much
without using the game list window much. I'm not trying to be
argumentative, but wondering if I am missing something significant
about how to use Scid. Which is en
On Wed, Jan 12, 2011 at 10:16 AM, Alexander Wagner
wrote:
>
> They have a bit a strange starting thread at
>
> http://www.chess.com/forum/view/community/xfcc-support
Ha! I started that thread some time back and just bumped it again a
few years ago... it's very frustrating that no one from chess.c
I'm not a lawyer, but intellectual property is my specialty and the
only thing that's pretty clear is that the moves for an individual
game aren't protected by copyright. Collections of games, however, may
be, depending on the collection, as are collections of other public
information. This doesn't
On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Alexander Wagner
wrote:
>
> The pragmatic way would be something like: Chris works in Zurich
> Candidats 1953. Checks the games, cleans data, and once he places a hook
> at Zurich 1953 this tournament is done. Fullstop. Next one... Unless
> someone spots an inconsis
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?"
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On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 1:14 PM, Gerd Lorscheid
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Well, that aspect of things is beyond my ken... but I am interested in
contributing to such a project seeing as how I am going to otherwise
be left creating such a thing on my own anyway!
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On Sun, Jan 2, 2011 at 9:52 AM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote:
> This project dates to the days me and Alex were
I received a back-channel response that the comparison between Scid
and Chessbase in the "review" I shared from another group was
"unfair." I wanted to make something clear about my reasons for
sharing, so I quote from my response:
"...I don't think a comparison is necessarily unfair (although I d
By happenstance I came across this Scid related project/fork whatever.
Is anyone here involved with this project?
http://scidb.sourceforge.net/
The post that mentioned it was doing so in the context of scidb having
support to read .cbh files...
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Just came across this somewhat belittling "review" of Scid, Chessbase,
etc... the tone is grating, but perhaps some of the points of
"weakness" are worth discussion?
http://blog.chess.com/danthebugman/review---scid-40
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The single best feature I will admit is useful in searches, is CQL.
Scid do
Is the ScidBase project dead? I assume so, given the links, but maybe not?
If so, are there any other initiatives around to create a
*high-quality* (meaning no duplicates, all games verified, all
tournaments complete, etc) database? A few years back I signed up to
be a volunteer for one such proje
like this:
[Event "Tactics 001"]
[Date "1994.??.??"]
[Round "-"]
[White "Mate in one"]
[Black "White to move"]
[Result "*"]
[FEN "3q1rk1/5pbp/5Qp1/8/8/2B5/5PPP/6K1 w - - 0 1"]
1.Qxg7# *
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On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 9:38 AM,
The postcard printing would be an interesting inclusion. If that's a
reasonable feature, though, then I think auto-diagramming would serve
even more people ;)
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On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 9:01 AM, Alexander Wagner
wrote:
> On 12/25/10 18:12, Chris Lott wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
bably less used now. I have an iPad and an Android phone and my
netbook size notebook... but I still find myself using paper a lot.
c
On Sat, Dec 25, 2010 at 8:55 AM, Alexander Wagner
wrote:
> On 12/25/10 17:55, Chris Lott wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>> I agree-- plain HTML is the best
I agree-- plain HTML is the best option for printing without having to
install a lot of extra software. Unless I am missing something! In
fact, my previous query about automatic diagram insertion came from
the habit I have of putting my correspondence games into SCID and
printing them-- all that ar
I can-- and do!-- manually add a D to my games each time I make a
move. But to do so I have to make my move, switch to comment editor to
delete the old (though I could just leave them) and add the new.
I use the printouts both to take games with me to consider positions,
but could also use an auto
Is there a way to automatically have a diagram inserted at the final
position of a set of filtered games when exporting to HTML? I'd like
to print the current position in all my correspondence games without
having to open each, add a diagram with the comment editor, and
save/replace...
c
It's useful for one's own knowledge, particularly if-- as many
training systems have one do-- one does the same sets of problems
again, or even multiple times, often at longish intervals.
I was just curious if the clock/timer were being put to any use.
c
On Sun, Dec 19, 2010 at 5:21 AM, Alexande
A couple of questions re: training mode in SCID. I have the Polgar
5334 positions in PGN, which I converted to SCID format and put in the
bases directory.
1) When I choose Play -> Training -> Tactics, I see the list of bases,
but the Polgar base I created doesn't show a title for the base, just
th
So far, my use of engines with Scid has been limited to dropping the
.exe file (windows) into a directory and telling Scid where it is. I
haven't messed at all with configuring parameters, UCI or otherwise.
I just downloaded Homer, however, and it doesn't work this way. when I
try to use it I get
Can SCID be run from different machines using a flash or portable hard drive?
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Glad to see this feature being implemented. I seem to recall asking
about it a few months ago and essentially being told "no." :)
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On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:58 AM, Alexander Wagner
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>> The final point is to have a clean database with only
>> proper player names, correct dates and no duplicate.
>
> Well, one can have dreams, can't one?
>
>> I think that it is a very hard
>> job indeed
>
> Yes, I think such a base would be
> Chess960 which gained quite some popularity recently. But besides that...
I'm basically uninterested in variants... I have enough problems
dealing with the "real" game. And I doubt I
netbook, where I suspect it will be more than satisfactory.
Add Rybka and a playing interface of one's choice and you've got the
ultimate low/no-cost portable ches
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 3:05 PM, Christopher D. Walborn
wrote:
> Chris Lott wrote:
>
>> I can't duplicate this *generally* on Windows XP, though it did happen
>> to me once after a SCID upgrade. The only thing I was able to do was
>> create and start using a new c
On Thu, Apr 2, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Christopher D. Walborn
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>
> 3) Play\Correspondence Chess\Retrieve
>
> Progress window with "Sorting the database..." stays on screen with
> the progress bar completely blue and elapsed/remaining time @ 0:00/0:00
>
I can't duplicate this *generally* on Windows
for my second idea-- but I do see that Scid can
highlight squares... perhaps that could be used as an option?
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On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 6:30 AM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote:
>> all games which have no result yet
>
> Unselect all but the asterisk (*)
Right
>
>> and in which it is my move (given that my name may be one of a few different
>> names, since these are games from a couple of different sites)?
>
> Hmm
Is there a way to search for something like:
all games which have no result yet and in which it is my move (given
that my name may be one of a few different names, since these are
games from a couple of different sites)?
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nd me, but I wanted to note that (in
Windows XP) when I went into undocked mode, I still don't get any auto
focus on the window following the mouse, but I can a) alt-tab back or
b) click anywhere in the window to get enough focus to enter moves
with the keyboard. Which is a big improvement over
On Sat, Mar 21, 2009 at 10:48 AM, Alexander Wagner
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> Could it be that there is a missundersanding? Focus follows
> mouse is a very common feature on Unix, but I don't think it
> is generally known concept on Mac or Windows, possibliy
> giving a usability problem there. I love it and use i
itor and provide chess markup. Do you have
suggestions? The best wikis I have evaluated (not hosted elsewhere and
free and/or open source) use wiki markup.
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nd there are simple ways to handle that (in my experience). Complex
data structures (if I understand what Pascal means) are a tradeoff of
the ease of editing and "webby" growth of wikis. But PmWiki does
provide groups, page lists, tags, etc... and with judicious
the board do light up when I hover over them but no keyboard entry) is
by clicking on the tab, which puts a dotted line around the tab title
and *then* keyboard entry works.
Note: I am on Windows XP.
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>> What would prevent keyboard move entry? I can't enter any moves via
>> the keyboard... when I try, nothing happens at all!
>
> In case you use
> this mode I think clicking on the boards tab first should set it right.
That appears to be t
I'm good with something like scid-chess.info too... depends on
1) how broad we want the title to be and
2) what Pascal sees as working best with his plans!
scid-chess.info and .org
scidwiki.info and .org
scid-wiki.info and .org
scid-docs.info and .org
etc
are available.
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On Fri, Mar 20, 2009
What would prevent keyboard move entry? I can't enter any moves via
the keyboard... when I try, nothing happens at all!
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I definitely prefer the lesser administrative headaches with pmWiki
compared to MediaWiki, though I've used both. I've found it pretty
simply to move whole pmwiki installations (I have a couple of
wikifarms at the university I work for).
I've used MoinMoin but since I have negligible Python skills
I'd be happy to help with this-- I've got a server with extra
bandwidth and would kick in a domain name too... scidwiki.com perhaps?
The main questions for me would be if there is one wiki engine that is
better than the others. I can administer/maintain it and have used a
few in he past. pmWiki is
bka 3 for analysis-- should I use a different engine?
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So, I have a finished game in Scid. I use the analysis feature to
annotate blunders and Scid annotates the game.
Now, is there a way that I can use that analysis for training... ie
can I have Scid jump to the first position where I blundered without
revealing the next move/variation? Can Scid tell
On Mon, Mar 16, 2009 at 11:47 PM, Pascal Georges
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> 2009/3/17, Chris Lott :
>
> Scid uses books generated with Polyglot from PGN files. It uses the
> same format as Fruit's engines. So the answer is "no" unless you find
> a way to convert back CTG books to
2009/3/16 Pascal Georges :
>> Did I miss it? I think a function similar to Chess Assistant where, at
>> any point in a game one can choose "Search Position" and specif\y
>> which DB to search in (among other options), would be the most
>> economical I'm thinking in the common case that I'm not
Is there a way to convert Fritz/CB opening books for use with Scid?
there are quite a number of interesting, tuned opening books at places
like: Sedat's Download page: http://www.sedatchess.com/download.html
but they are in .ctg/.ctb/.cto format...
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> I admit, I never noticed something the like. Please try the patch I
> described in my other mail, to see if it persists. Can you positively rule
> out a failure of your hard disk? Corrupted file system due to a crash eg.?
> To me it sound
es...
The CC window shows:
info SM-
info SM-
etc
stopping on
info SM-xxxx
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On Fri, Mar 13, 2009 at 1:05 PM, Alexander Wagner
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> Hi!
>
> For those interested, I added some new features to CC code
> (current cvs). As all changes where user requests, here's a
> list for those interested. Please give it a try!
Looking forward to it... is there any source for nightly o
On Tue, Mar 10, 2009 at 9:57 AM, Alexander Wagner
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> Well, for the first place this seems to be something for the FAQ/Tips ;)
Did I miss it? I think a function similar to Chess Assistant where, at
any point in a game one can choose "Search Position" and specif\y
which DB to search in (among
sumed that the clipbase would play
a role, but I can't figure out how to search in anything but the
database the game/position is in...
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The 'Play > Correspondence Chess > Open Database' menu item behaves
slightly differently than the CTRL-F12 shortcut key that is supposed
to invoke it. Using the menu item also opens the Correspondence DB...
using the shortcut key I have to then press the DB connect button. The
former seems more "co
On Sat, Feb 28, 2009 at 12:56 AM, Alexander Wagner
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> Chris Lott wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
>> Tangentially, what would be extremely useful to me would
>> be the ability to export games/positions as playable
>> boards embeddable in blogs and web pages...
>
> I see
Tangentially, what would be extremely useful to me would be the
ability to export games/positions as playable boards embeddable in
blogs and web pages... most of the solutions out there now are either
proprietary to a site or not particularly usable. I understand this
would probably need to be tied
Thank you for this release! It cleared up a whole bunch of small but
irritating issues I was having with various UCI engines... and not
having to constantly remake moves or change the number of lines in the
analysis window is a nice improvement.
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On 4/27/07, Chris Lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> The "Find Text" feature in the game list would be much more powerful
> if it could find substrings in addition to exact matches... or even
> some kind of "find as you type" capability...
>
Disregard the fir
The "Find Text" feature in the game list would be much more powerful
if it could find substrings in addition to exact matches... or even
some kind of "find as you type" capability...
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> Do you meet the same behavior with different PGN files ?
So far it only happens when using the "old" export...
> I find it weird the crash happens when browsing directories. I just
> exported 20.700 games (!) to HTML+JS under windows XP without pr
metimes). But 2/3 of the time or more
it dies.
Is there a debug build that might help figure this out or any kind of
logging or troubleshooting I can pursue?
I'm running Windows XP, Scid 3.6.13, TCL/TK 8.4.5
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known without needing to attack one another... if a feature doesn't
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see no reason to be negative about the request. If it *does*, then
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which does include a concrete example of my SUGGESTION. Anyone who
develops software and asks for feedback should expect just that. If
you want to be a father or a schoolteacher, please look elsewhere!
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On 4/22/07, Chris Lott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On 4/22/07, pgeorges <[EMAIL
each position.
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Fair enough. The same could be said for hundreds of different tools
that could replace hundreds of different pieces of Scid's
functionality :)
PALView is another too
On 4/22/07, pgeorges <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> No, it is not possible. Only when playing tactical games, you may get
> info about score without seeing the main line.
Well, consider this a potential feature request :) Thanks!
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Provide a menu that would provide easy access to favorite/common saved
searches... perhaps as an extension of the current Search menu...
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filter) be combined and saved as one search? It appears to only save
the second step when I save the search...
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Is there a way to use an engine in scid to look at a move/position and
show only the score without showing the continuing line it
is considering?
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> > Two Scid questions:
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> > 1) How can I add annotations past the last move of a game? For
> > instance, if the game ends on 12. Bxf7 and I want to add
bunch. Can I set these positions up and use Scid to
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