Re: [Scid-users] Project Proposition / Project Merge / Etc...

2013-03-20 Thread Dale Hards
Sorry to have been lurking this whole time, I didn't really have anything to bring to the discussion of the last week... I'd like to see improvements to FICS play. These days I mainly use SCID to watch GM games on FICS, and it's quite annoying there is no proper games list. It'd be nice to have a

Re: [Scid-users] Scid for Andoroid?

2011-11-28 Thread Dale Hards
Sorry that should be Scid On The Go Dale Sent from Android. Please excuse brevity. On 28 Nov 2011 10:02, "Dale Hards" wrote: Have you tried Scid On The Move? It is free in the Android Market Dale Sent from Android. Please excuse brevity. > > On 28 Nov 2011 10:00, "Lea

Re: [Scid-users] Scid for Andoroid?

2011-11-28 Thread Dale Hards
Have you tried Scid On The Move? It is free in the Android Market Dale Sent from Android. Please excuse brevity. On 28 Nov 2011 10:00, "Leander Laruelle" wrote: Hello, Will there be Scid for Android some day, Eventually a payed version? Thx, Leander Laruelle -

Re: [Scid-users] Linux Flavor for Scid

2011-05-31 Thread Dale Hards
I stand corected. I'm relatively new to Mint! Dale Sent from Android. Please excuse brevity. On 31 May 2011 19:02, "Gerardo Fernandez" wrote: On Tue, May 31, 2011 at 7:53 PM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: >> Linux Mint and Scid allowe... Mint's main edition, Linux Mint 11 Katya, just released, is b

Re: [Scid-users] Linux Flavor for Scid

2011-05-31 Thread Dale Hards
There are multiple flavours of Mint. AFAIK they are all Ubuntu based except for the Mint Debian flavour. I am also an ex-Ubuntu user, but found later versions to be painfully buggy and difficult from a UI point of view. I have used Fedora before but found the lack of packages a nuisance. Mint is

Re: [Scid-users] Advice for building lrghe game database

2011-04-25 Thread Dale Hards
The full ICOFY db is split into about 5 files listed a-e. The total should be over 4 million. Just checking you know that! Dale Sent from Android. Please excuse brevity. On 25 Apr 2011 20:25, "guivho" wrote: On Mon, Apr 25, 2011 at 20:42, Dale Hards wrote: > I use the ICOFY da

Re: [Scid-users] Advice for building lrghe game database

2011-04-25 Thread Dale Hards
I use the ICOFY database as a starting point, then get it more up to date using all the weekly pgn files from The Week In Chess archives. I am currently on my phone so its difficult to give you the urls, but ICOFY is on Sourceforge. Google them. Both are free by the way. The end result is about 4.5

Re: [Scid-users] Tactical Game blunder/score indicators

2010-07-17 Thread Dale Hards
Changing the label would definitely be an improvement, because at least then it's understood what it does. After a few emails with Alexander, I've decided to take the plunge and see if I can get it to analyze the human input (with a goal of getting it to analyze both in the final fix) myself. Be w

Re: [Scid-users] Tactical Game blunder/score indicators

2010-07-14 Thread Dale Hards
So only Phalanx' moves are analysed? Forgive me here, but couldn't that be almost considered a bug? I'm much more interested in how good my moves are than the computers... Couldn't we have it ignore Phalanx' moves and only analyse the players? Or if we really want both moves analysed, have separate

[Scid-users] Tactical Game blunder/score indicators

2010-07-13 Thread Dale Hards
Hi all, Could anyone kindly tell me what the two bars in the tactical game view: blunder (the white one) and score (the blue/grey one) actually do? Am I right in thinking that blunder tells me if *I've* blundered, and the score gives me the score of the computer's move? There is no information in

Re: [Scid-users] LaTeX chess12 font on Fedora

2010-05-31 Thread Dale Hards
On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 4:16 PM, Alexander Wagner < a.wag...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: > At least for my part, yes. But you'll have to have some patience for me to > get it done. No problems there, this is more of a nice-to-have. A big nice-to-have, but I don't exactly depend on it. I jus

Re: [Scid-users] LaTeX chess12 font on Fedora

2010-05-28 Thread Dale Hards
Hi guys, Sorry to resurrect this... I've found that skak comes in the Fedora repositories (unless I've picked it up from one of the repositories I added) and it works great with the test tex file that Ulrich provided, however it appears that the opening reports need more than just swapping "chess1

Re: [Scid-users] LaTeX chess12 font on Fedora

2010-05-21 Thread Dale Hards
Thanks Benoit and Ulrich for answering so quickly. Hopefully I'll have time this weekend to get it running. Dale On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:32 PM, Ulrich Dirr wrote: > > Also, where can we get skak? I'm currently at work so can't look around > > thoroughly, but a quick Google didn't really find

Re: [Scid-users] LaTeX chess12 font on Fedora

2010-05-21 Thread Dale Hards
Also, where can we get skak? I'm currently at work so can't look around thoroughly, but a quick Google didn't really find anything. Thanks, Dale On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:01 PM, Marius Roets wrote: > Hi Ulrich, > > On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 3:47 PM, Ulrich Dirr wrote: > >> Well, on my system your

Re: [Scid-users] LaTeX chess12 font on Fedora

2010-05-21 Thread Dale Hards
; Cheers Joost! Dale On Fri, May 21, 2010 at 9:07 AM, Joost 't Hart wrote: > On 05/21/2010 09:50 AM, Dale Hards wrote: > > Hi, > > Might be too obvious to mention, but you did not explicitly state that this > (http://scid.sourceforge.net/latex.html) did not work for you - and

[Scid-users] LaTeX chess12 font on Fedora

2010-05-21 Thread Dale Hards
Hi everyone, I'm making a switch to Fedora and am experimenting with a virtual machine before I make the plunge when Fedora 13 comes out. Scid works fine (as far as I can see), which is great, but I can't find an RPM for the chess12 font, meaning the tex files for such as the opening reports are r

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

2010-04-07 Thread Dale Hards
ases, like http://chessopeningsdatabase.com/ > > Best, > > > Magnus > > > Dale Hards wrote: > > > > > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Magnus Larsson > <mailto:mag...@vista.se>> wrote: > > > > Hi! > > > > > &g

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

2010-04-04 Thread Dale Hards
Apologies I forgot to send this to all. Magnus, I have found the problem. You need to restart SCID to pick up the new database type. Also, it appears you don't have to flag games to get the Opening Trainer to work, but it does make it better. Dale On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Dale

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

2010-04-04 Thread Dale Hards
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Magnus Larsson wrote: > Hi! > Hi! > > Also, the feature "Play - Training - Openings" souds interesting - but > it asks med to first open repertoire database. So what is that...? How > do I find or construct one? > As Alexander has said there is a help file, whi

Re: [Scid-users] Wondering about how to integrate ratings.ssp file...

2010-03-29 Thread Dale Hards
Hi, I just noticed this: On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:37 AM, Joost 't Hart wrote: > Note that if you are successful in building your own scid: Do not > accidentally switch between the old and the new one, as some files used > to remember your preferences (in ~brian/.scid/) are not compatible, so

Re: [Scid-users] Opening databases

2010-03-12 Thread Dale Hards
pattern, which ones can and which can't. > > Regards > Philipp > > P.S. my english sucks, sorry for that > I thought your English was excellent, don't worry. Thank you very much for your reply! Dale > > > > On 3/11/10, Dale Hards wrote: > > Hello,

Re: [Scid-users] Opening databases

2010-03-12 Thread Dale Hards
On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 6:05 AM, Marius Roets wrote: > Hi Dale, > > On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 10:46 PM, Dale Hards wrote: > >> Hello, >> >> Once again, well done on a fantastic piece of software. SCID is easily my >> favourite open-source software, and I use it

[Scid-users] Opening databases

2010-03-11 Thread Dale Hards
Hello, Once again, well done on a fantastic piece of software. SCID is easily my favourite open-source software, and I use it a lot. I was hoping someone on the mailing list could point me in the direction of a good free and legal (ie not plagiarised material) PGN for an opening database, from ei

Re: [Scid-users] Resigning from a serious game.

2009-11-03 Thread Dale Hards
Ah okay! I understand how to do this now. I will be doing it that way from now on. Many thanks, Dale On Tue, Nov 3, 2009 at 4:41 PM, Alexander Wagner < a.wag...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: > As Pascal pointed out there's no button therefore you'll have to abort the > game and store the res

[Scid-users] Resigning from a serious game.

2009-10-31 Thread Dale Hards
Hi guys, I can't seem to work out how to resign from a serious game against the computer (i.e. Rybka). I click "abort" which ends the game, but the PGN isn't being marked as a win for the computer. I've looked at the F1 help, and the help on the net, as well as searching through the mailiing lists

Re: [Scid-users] couple of questions about databases

2009-10-13 Thread Dale Hards
>I repeated the process for the 5 PGN files without any problem. The only >issue issue that could appear is a RAM shortage (I have 2 GB, and the >resulting base eats 700 MB). > >Pascal Fair enough. I couldn't reproduce it again earlier either. I might give it a last try this weekend, just in case

Re: [Scid-users] couple of questions about databases

2009-10-10 Thread Dale Hards
>Could you please detail the procedure to reproduce this ? What are exactly >the bases you use, Scid's commands entered since its startup, etc. ? Even >some screenshots could help. I just tried opening up ICOFY PGN files and it >works for me. Running SCID 4.0 on Ubuntu 8.04 from source (make insta

Re: [Scid-users] couple of questions about databases

2009-10-07 Thread Dale Hards
Hi, I've been subscribed to the mailing list for a while, but this is my first time posting to it. I had this same problem, copying over the ICOFY database in the Database Switcher function. However if you keep drag-and-dropping, it does copy successfully after 4 or 5 tries. I now have a full ICO