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

2016-01-12 Thread Gregor Cramer
> 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

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

2016-01-12 Thread Gregor Cramer
> 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

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

2016-01-12 Thread Gregor Cramer
ared data (stored in index file), the search into variations is without any acceleration. Cheers, Gregor Cramer -- Site24x7 APM Insight: Get Deep Visibility into Application Performance APM + Mobile APM + RUM: Monitor 3

Re: [Scid-users] PGN : name of piece in my language

2015-08-18 Thread Gregor Cramer
> I have recenly converted a Chessbase (CBG) file into PGN. > Scid complains of " (Game X, Line Y) Warning : "}" seen outside a comment in > game ..." This is a bug in ChessBase. > so I'm trying to guess and correct it with Notepad++ Yes, this is required. > This seems to happen with complex ne

[Scid-users] C/CIF + Chess Assistant + Rybka Aquarium

2015-07-11 Thread Gregor Cramer
I need some help for the completion of the C/CIF library (see ccif.sourceforge.net). 1. Rybka Aquarium supports move markers like coloured arrows, rectangles, filled rectangles, circles, and some more additional markers (also called graphical annotation, see http://chessok.com/?p=23017 for screens

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

2015-03-26 Thread Gregor Cramer
> I guess the more important questions are "How is Franz Nagl?... > There has been no update to ratings.ssp in more than a year, > at least none that I can see. I've wrote him a mail a few months ago about a little problem in the spelling file, and he answered: > tut mir leid, aber die spelling f

[Scid-users] Curiosity in ECO file

2015-02-13 Thread Gregor Cramer
I've detected a curiosity in the ECO file of Scid: 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 will be assigned to E10 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5 will be assigned to A60 1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5 b5 will be assigned to E10 This is not l

Re: [Scid-users] engine auto-install

2014-11-27 Thread Gregor Cramer
For me it's clear that the author of the chess engine is responsible for the installation of the plugin spec file. A user might install the latest build of the engine, and expects that the installation from source code is also installing the spec file, who else should do this? And only the author

Re: [Scid-users] engine auto-install

2014-11-26 Thread Gregor Cramer
> If you think SCID should not install the > engine, the logical > solution would be to not list "chess". OTOH, there does not seem great > harm if > the engine was installed in SCID as a duplicate of Stockfish. But not listing "chess" may irritate other GUI's, IMO this cannot be the solution (Ko

Re: [Scid-users] engine auto-install

2014-11-26 Thread Gregor Cramer
Fulvio wrote: > So as usual the GUI developers have to do the hard work... I don't agree that this is the hard work, IMO H.G. Mullers proposal is quite appropriate for a solution of auto-installing engines. The GUI has to do the work anyway, because the user of this GUI might interact with the aut

Re: [Scid-users] engine auto-install

2014-11-26 Thread Gregor Cramer
iles impossible; beside the fact that Scidb is using ID's instead of names. In this way, with an explicit specification of the image file, it is also possible to share logos. 5. This specification format can also be used easily under Windows (

Re: [Scid-users] Scid.eco

2014-04-19 Thread Gregor Cramer
Hi Fulvio, > I've very dumb about the eco codes. The ECO codes are not very useful, but some people are believing in this code, especially the so called Profis, and so it seems that it is unavoidable to display these unfortunate ECO codes. > For example, the A26 code in the link you posted: > ev

Re: [Scid-users] 16.7mio game limit

2013-04-19 Thread Gregor Cramer
The limit of 24 bit cannot be exceeded, because the index header is storing the number of games with 24 bit. Two numbers are reserved (0 and last), this means the maximal number of games is in fact 2^24 - 2 (= 16.777.214). Gregor ---

Re: [Scid-users] Delay refresh while speeding through game

2013-04-12 Thread Gregor Cramer
> Scidb does some fancy stuff to keep track of line widths and manually > insert newlines > i think (Gregor ?). This is codeable, but this is hard work with non-fixed > fonts widths and all of the options the pgn widget currently has for > different display output. Yes, Scidb is inserting newlines

Re: [Scid-users] Project merge

2013-03-15 Thread Gregor Cramer
nd handle data, and contains some novelties, not included in any other chess application. -- Gregor Cramer email: -- Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDyna

Re: [Scid-users] UCI analysis changes

2013-01-28 Thread Gregor Cramer
> One thing Scid does slightly wrong is it's reliance on "position fen" > ... > Anyway, the correct way is to use the "position startpos moves" command. I recommend to do this change, it's the correct behavior and Scidb is working well with "position startpos ...". But consider three points: 1.

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-04 Thread Gregor Cramer
? Scidb has currently only one developer. Gregor -- Gregor Cramer email: -- Master HTML5, CSS3, ASP.NET, MVC, AJAX, Knockout.js, Web API and much more. Get web development skills now with LearnDevNow - 350+ hours of

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Gregor Cramer
Some more points to Scidb: > What I saw last from Scidb there was no database maintenance, > no filtering, no trees. Instead FICS and PDF-Export seem to be > a goal… No, that is definitively not the main goal of Scidb. But developing software is very, very time consuming, and it needs some time t

Re: [Scid-users] Testing

2013-01-03 Thread Gregor Cramer
Hello, as the developer of Scidb I like to answer to some points. > The developer of scidb came to the same conclusion but starting from > scratch is also no good idea. Initially I started to re-design Scid (in fact I've implemented the SVG graphic firstly in Scid), but I gave up after some week

Re: [Scid-users] cbh2sci is available

2011-07-09 Thread Gregor Cramer
7;t have this compiler version). If you have an older version you might use this version, for example: > CC=gcc-4.1 CXX=g++-4.1 ./configure -- Gregor Cramer email: -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructu

[Scid-users] cbh2sci is available

2011-07-07 Thread Gregor Cramer
very well tested. A more extensive test is required. -- Gregor Cramer email: -- All of the data generated in your IT infrastructure is seriously valuable. Why? It contains a definitive record of application perform