Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 117, Issue 1

2017-05-20 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
exact duplicates or identical to the end of one game. > > El 2017-may-19 a las 18:55, J. Wesley Cleveland escribi?: > > I ran delete twin games on a database and it says that these two games > > are dups. What is going on? > > > > [Event "?"] >

[Scid-users] Problem with deleting twin games

2017-05-19 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
I ran delete twin games on a database and it says that these two games are dups. What is going on? [Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date ".??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "?"] [Black "?"] [Result "*"] 1.Nf3 d6 $5 * [Event "?"] [Site "?"] [Date ".??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "?"] [Black "?"] [Result "*"

[Scid-users] Questions about annotating.

2016-12-07 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
I use scid to analyze games from my chess program and there are things I haven't figured out how to do or don't work the way I would like. Let me go through the steps I take. 1. I start scid 4.6.2. 2. I close the example database (I haven't done any configuration). 3. I import a PGN file into the c

[Scid-users] Simple change request

2016-01-12 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
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

Re: [Scid-users] how to add shortcuts?

2011-06-19 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
> On 05/29/11 16:24, Fred Mellender wrote: > > Hi! > >> I would like to see a general scripting capability that would have >> commands for all the menu items in SCID as well as keyboard shortcuts. >>   As an example project: construct "mate in one" puzzles (which I have >> done via the current inte

Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase?

2011-01-04 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
> From: Chris Lott > Subject: Re: [Scid-users] ScidBase? > To: Alexander Wagner > Cc: Scid Users List , Chris Lott >         > Message-ID: >         > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > > On Mon, Jan 3, 2011 at 5:54 AM, Alexander Wagner > wrote: >> >> The pragmatic way would be somet

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

2011-01-01 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
If the pgn window is docked, you can click on the notation tab and choose file-copy game to clipboard. -- Learn how Oracle Real Application Clusters (RAC) One Node allows customers to consolidate database storage, standard

Re: [Scid-users] Games request

2010-11-30 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
Would it be possible for for you to make the engine info button work in Winboard mode ? -- Increase Visibility of Your 3D Game App & Earn a Chance To Win $500! Tap into the largest installed PC base & get more eyes on your

Re: [Scid-users] Games request

2010-11-17 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 10:45 AM, Joost 't Hart wrote: > Thanks, > > Maybe yes, maybe no ;-) > > I put it in CVS, but did not manage to get anything useful in the prompt > box. Maybe you know how to make an engine crash and produce something > useful? > > Cheers, > Joost. > If you put these lines

Re: [Scid-users] Games request

2010-11-16 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 4:05 AM, wrote: > Assuming that "the engine" indeed behaves as the "command" below, this would > not be too difficult to handle. I am happy that you do not propose to make > the > pipe between engine and scid a multiplex of the engine's stdout and stderr. > This would be

Re: [Scid-users] Games request

2010-11-15 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
From: Alexander Wagner > > On 11/15/10 00:11, Joost 't Hart wrote: > > Hi! > > >> 3. Capture the output from stderr also. Stockfish writes to stderr on > >> an error exit, but the message vanishes because there is no console > >> window. > > > > Hm, I like what you say but this could mean quite so

Re: [Scid-users] Games request

2010-11-13 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:06:26 +0100 > From: Joost 't Hart > Subject: [Scid-users] Games request > To: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <4cdd9032.30...@planet.nl> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed > > Hi, > > Rounding up a re-implementation of the annota

Re: [Scid-users] Build for windows

2010-05-14 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
Here is the VC project files that work for me. Anyone is free to use them but if they don't work for you, you are on your own. http://www.mediafire.com/download.php?nvylzhtiw1i -- _

[Scid-users] Scid wish - save results of material/pattern search as epd

2010-02-04 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
I would like some way to save results of material/pattern search as epd. I would like to create test sets of positions with various material combinations and this would allow me to automate the process. Ideal would be to have a search option that wrote all matching positions as epd to a file with a

[Scid-users] Large game collection

2009-11-29 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
A collection of the last 10 years of games played at fics is available at http://marcelk.net/logics/. The are quality games only in the sense that they load into scid without errors. There are supposedly over 100 million games, but I would guess that less than 1% of them are grandmaster strength. I

Re: [Scid-users] Stockfish and RobboLito engines for SCID?

2009-11-10 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
On Tue, Nov 10, 2009 at 1:03 PM, Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > Hello, > > Ippolito can be obtained via the torrent site of your choice, both the > source and the app, both of which I did not find it on the site you > mentioned. So they should be considered free. But the best bet would > be to as

[Scid-users] New database format ?

2009-07-06 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
If we are going to change the database format, we should seriously think about adding unique IDs for players and tournaments. -- ___ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourc

[Scid-users] Fixed minor bug in Delete Twin Games

2009-03-29 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
I noticed that the first game shown in the twin checker window is sometimes not a twin. The reason is that in updateTwinChecker the game number is initialized to the current game rather than the first game in the filter. Unfortunately, one can't set the current game to the first game in the filter

Re: [Scid-users] isalpha bug in scid

2009-03-29 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
On Sun, Mar 29, 2009 at 1:48 AM, < Pascal Georges wrote: > > 2009/3/29 J. Wesley Cleveland > > > There are many places where isalpha is called with a signed character > > parameter in scid. This will not work correctly for character values > > 127 > > which in

[Scid-users] isalpha bug in scid

2009-03-28 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
There are many places where isalpha is called with a signed character parameter in scid. This will not work correctly for character values > 127 which includes many european characters that are not in the english character set as they are promoted to ints giving values like 0xffe0. There may al

Re: [Scid-users] Re : Paste start board broken ?

2009-03-26 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
if {[catch {set fenStr [selection get -selection CLIPBOARD]} ]} { catch {set fenStr [selection get -selection PRIMARY]} } On Thu, Mar 26, 2009 at 1:59 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > It works for me (very good position for white !). > > Pascal > > 2009/3/26, J. Wesley Clevel

[Scid-users] Paste start board broken ?

2009-03-25 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
I tried to paste a fen string "r1b2rk1/1pNnq1b1/1B1p2n1/P2Pp2p/4Pp2/5Pp1/1P2B1PP/R2QNRK1 w - - 0 1" into 3.7.1 and get is not a valid chess position in FEN notation. The same string works in 3.6.23. --

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 32, Issue 44

2009-03-24 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 1:25 PM, < Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > > When I run scid with a docked pgn window and use to > look > > through games, I find it distracting when the headers appear and > disappear > > from the top of the pgn window depending on how long the game is. > > In that case, I th

Re: [Scid-users] Re : Feature request

2009-03-24 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
On Tue, Mar 24, 2009 at 12:47 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > The PGN window scrolls with current move, so that moves before and > after current are visible. > The game info window below main board also displays game info. > > Pascal > > 2009/3/24, J. Wesley Cleveland : >

[Scid-users] Feature request

2009-03-23 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
When the pgn window is docked and the pgn is too long for the current window size, it is scrolled to the bottom. Could a scroll to top be put in so that the header info is always visible when a game is loaded ? -- Apps buil

[Scid-users] Problem with boardsize

2009-03-21 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
I can no longer change the size of the board. Options/chessboard/size is grayed out. This is on windows 2000. I tried changing boardSize in options.dat but the value in the file is reset to the value 50 immediately after starting scid. ---

[Scid-users] Delete twin game glitch and feature request

2009-03-17 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
A single '?' in the event or site field does not match a blank field. I don't know if this is a bug, but using name edit to change all of them allowed me to remove tens of thousands of duplicate games. A feature I would like in delete twin games would be an option to merge all header fields, rather

Re: [Scid-users] Small problem with epd window (Pascal Georges)

2009-03-14 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
On Sat, Mar 14, 2009 at 3:03 AM, Pascal Georges wrote: > > 2009/3/13 J. Wesley Cleveland > > > If you open an epd file and click on an epd string, it shows the string > on > > the board, except for the first line. To show this, you have to click on > > some ot

[Scid-users] Small problem with epd window

2009-03-13 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
If you open an epd file and click on an epd string, it shows the string on the board, except for the first line. To show this, you have to click on some other line and click back on the first line. Also, is there some way to keep loading a position from creating a new game? I am trying to find game

[Scid-users] tournament finder problem

2009-03-13 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
I installed scid 3.7.1, loaded a large (~4.6m games) database I had created with scid 3.6.23, and opened the tournament finder window. It took 15 minutes before I could enter values in the tournament finder window. It would be much better if it did not do a search before I pressed update. -

[Scid-users] More feature requests

2008-04-26 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
There is a share tags button on the delete twins results window. It would be good to have a batch option to share tags on all twin games with user intervention. A useful option on the delete twins options window would be to have blank fields or fields with just '?'s always match. Cleaner and spel

[Scid-users] Problem with spellcheck

2008-04-23 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
There seems to be some problem with spellcheck. It gives a message "Scid found 6237 player name corrections, the first 2000 are listed below". I click on "correct" and in a minute there is a message box saying 1999 records corrected. I run spellcheck again and I get a somewhat smaller number but th

Re: [Scid-users] Feature requests

2008-04-23 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
On Wed, Apr 23, 2008 at 8:56 AM, Alexander Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pascal Georges wrote: > > Hi! > > > > 1. Some form of multiple selection in the game list window and > > commands to copy selected to clipbase, delete selected, and set > filter > > to selected. I think a

[Scid-users] Feature requests

2008-04-22 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
I just installed scid 3.6.23 and imported a big pgn database. There are a few features I'd like. 1. Some form of multiple selection in the game list window and commands to copy selected to clipbase, delete selected, and set filter to selected. I think a checkmark field would work well, but also wi

Re: [Scid-users] Problem with too large games - faced once more

2007-08-20 Thread J. Wesley Cleveland
> > Concerning a game of 200 kB, I think those are a bit extrem > > ones, don't you ? > > Well, there are a lot of annotations, in particular plenty of > quoted related games. But it is not artificial. > > > The best thing would be to add another base format version in > > Scid but I am reluctant t