Re: [Scid-users] Rybka on a Mac

2009-07-16 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
Hi, Without having personal experience on this, I remember reading on Rybka's site awhile ago some users reporting running Rybka on macs through microwine, which essentially should be (I assume) a customized version of wine tailored for Rybka. I remember seeing microwine on their website as a dow

[Scid-users] opening training

2009-07-13 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
Hi, atm SCID has two ways to train openings, one is through creating an opening database and using Play->Training->Openings (which is what I used before) but now that I used the mask feature I see that similar things can be done through the mask feature. There is also the opening editor, which im

[Scid-users] mask file extension / OS X

2009-07-13 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
Hi, can you please let me know which is the file extension for mask files? in OS X it won't save the mask files and I suspect/hope that it may be fixed if I save as file.extension. Cheers, Klearchos begin:vcard fn:Klearchos Loukopoulos n:Loukopoulos;Klearchos email;internet:kloukopou...@gmail.co

Re: [Scid-users] a couple of SCID questions

2009-07-13 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
Apparently the setup board position became messy because of switching to merida 2 piece style (merida 1 is also messy) but switching to other sets makes it fine again. Alexander Wagner wrote: > Klearchos Loukopoulos wrote: > > Hi! > >> 1) SCID auto-annotation: within the SC

Re: [Scid-users] a couple of SCID questions

2009-07-13 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
will finish it off and upload it :) Alexander Wagner wrote: > Klearchos Loukopoulos wrote: > > Hi! > >> 1) SCID auto-annotation: within the SCID auto-annotation >> feature is it possible to have a comparison to a database >> and e.g. add notes where deviations fro

[Scid-users] a couple of SCID questions

2009-07-13 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
Hi all, I'd like to ask a couple of questions and I'd be thankful if someone who knows the answer(s) could reply. 1) SCID auto-annotation: within the SCID auto-annotation feature is it possible to have a comparison to a database and e.g. add notes where deviations from games in the Database happe

Re: [Scid-users] New Scid Tutorial

2009-07-09 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
Hi Israel, This is my blog :) thank you very much for replying a question there! I plan to upload part II within the following 10 days and part III will come after that. The general motivation behind the blog is to advertise free (as in freedom) software. My current schedule, being quite load

Re: [Scid-users] mac: text not aligned in tree window

2009-07-08 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
Indeed Options->Fonts->Fixed fixes this! thank you very much F. Charly wrote: > Using a fixed width font such as Monaco or Courier should work. > > On 8 juil. 09, at 14:57, Klearchos Loukopoulos wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> In the Tree window, text is not

[Scid-users] mac: text not aligned in tree window

2009-07-08 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
Hi all, In the Tree window, text is not aligned and looks like this http://www.flickr.com/photos/39885...@n05/3691253774/sizes/l/ . This happens both in SCID 3.7.2 and 3.7.3 and trying a couple of fonts didn't fix it. Do other mac users have a similar issue? I don't consider to be of significance

Re: [Scid-users] SCID training mode

2009-07-06 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
It was quite hard to find an email or post address, the closest thing to a contact I managed to find is http://www.icanj.net/chess_class_in_nj/contact.html, I sent an email, with title "for Mr. Mark Dvoretsky". *If he replies positively* I will be happy to upload blue diagrams in SCID format when

Re: [Scid-users] SCID training mode

2009-07-06 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
Dear Alexander, Thank you very much for your reply, my intention is passing to SCID the blue diagram tabiyas from Dvoretsky's endgame manual in order to practice endgames. When I have created them, I am happy to upload them if there aren't any copyright issues. According to my "Dvoretsky's Endga

[Scid-users] SCID training mode

2009-07-03 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
Hello all and many congratulations for SCID, it is top notch software, Under Play->Training->Tactics has some exercises. Is there any way for the user to create his own chess problems and add them there? Apologies if I am asking something obvious or if this has been answered before but my searche

[Scid-users] SCID training mode

2009-07-02 Thread Klearchos Loukopoulos
Hi all, I was wondering if it is possible for a SCID user to create his own training exercises, like endgame, tactics & positional exercises. I can't find something through the interface which could do that but are there any other means? begin:vcard fn:Klearchos Loukopoulos n:Loukopoulos;Klearcho