[Scid-users] Unable to compile SCID 4.3 on Ubuntu 11.04 64-bit

2011-05-07 Thread Roy Brunjes
I have the same problem as this user: http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.games.board.chess.scid.user/5239 I've installed as many X11*-dev packages and xorg packages as I can think of. My problem is identical to the user referenced at the link above. The ./configure fails with the same message and

[Scid-users] Fw: SCID - Annotate using "find opening errors" - bug

2010-10-29 Thread Roy Brunjes
1 and Black's 1st move in game 2. I just saw an example where 1. e4 is rated as within the blunder threshold but 1... c5 was more than 0.5 worse than the previous game where Black's 20th move was highly rated by the engine. Hope that's clear... - Forwar

[Scid-users] SCID - Annotate using "find opening errors" - bug

2010-10-29 Thread Roy Brunjes
I took a collection of games and wanted to analyse the openings (defined by me as first 20 moves of a game) of the games in this particular database. I selected "find opening errors" and set that parameter to 20. I also set the blunder threshold to 0.5 pawns. I set the options to analyze both wh

[Scid-users] Annotate game : when finished, leaves engine running in infinite analysis mode

2010-07-06 Thread Roy Brunjes
It would be nice if at the end of annotating a game (or games -- if multiple games are selected for analysis) that SCID send a command to the engine to tell it to stop. This saves CPU wear (temperature will be lower) and battery (if using a laptop that is not plugged in). Roy --

[Scid-users] Finish game - button does not work reliably

2010-07-06 Thread Roy Brunjes
If you start SCID and paste FEN into the board and then bring up an analysis engine and click "Finish game" (the "blue arrow"), it works. However, start up SCID, paste FEN into the board and bring up an analysis engine and then click "annotate" button to change the "think" time for the engine b

[Scid-users] Reiteration of request for feature in SCID

2010-06-19 Thread Roy Brunjes
I would like to see this feature added to SCID and welcome discussion about this: Have the ability to take the current position on the board and have engine-X play White (using custom time control) against engine-Y (using perhaps a different time control from engine-X) and automatically play mo

[Scid-users] SCID shootout - would be nice to have two different engines in shootout

2010-06-10 Thread Roy Brunjes
Perhaps this is already present and I cannot find out how to do it, but I think it would be useful to use two different engines in a shootout (one for white, one for black). At least having the option to use two different engines would be a useful option... Is there a way to do this already and

[Scid-users] Suddenly multiple engine misbehaviors with SCID 4.2.2

2010-03-31 Thread Roy Brunjes
I don't know what happened but this morning (after no rebuilds of SCID or the engines involved), when I paste a starting position into SCID and try to start Stockfish-1.6.3 the engine analysis window appears and a few lines of analysis are shown and then I get a popup saying the engine crashed.

Re: [Scid-users] Re : SCID 3.7.4 bug suspected

2009-05-15 Thread Roy Brunjes
millisecond). Roy From: Alexander Wagner To: Roy Brunjes Cc: Pascal Georges ; scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 10:20:31 AM Subject: Re: [Scid-users] Re : SCID 3.7.4 bug suspected Roy Brunjes wrote: Hi! > When this happens, w

Re: [Scid-users] Re : SCID 3.7.4 bug suspected

2009-05-15 Thread Roy Brunjes
When this happens, wine and Rybka-3 are both NOT running any longer. (ps -ef | grep -i wine and grep -i rybka show nothing). Roy From: Pascal Georges To: Roy Brunjes Cc: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 9:22:54 AM Subject: Re

Re: [Scid-users] Re : SCID 3.7.4 bug suspected

2009-05-15 Thread Roy Brunjes
iliar with SCID's source and I'm not a C programmer (though I've programmed in many other languages 25 years ago). Roy From: Pascal Georges To: Roy Brunjes Cc: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 12:37:07 AM Subject: Re

[Scid-users] SCID 3.7.4 bug suspected

2009-05-14 Thread Roy Brunjes
I run Rybka-3 under SCID and have for a long time now - both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of Rybka-3. The problem described below has existed for many releases now (certainly the 3.7 official release included this problem). I run 3.7.4 now and the problem still persists. If I attempt to edit the

[Scid-users] Error after clicking "Update" on Opening Report

2009-01-20 Thread Roy Brunjes
Hi All, I opened a SCID database and then clicked new game. I then made a few moves on the board and ran an opening report. Then, on the board, I made one more move and proceeded to click "Update" on the opening report. The result is this error: bad window path name ".oprepWin.text" bad window

[Scid-users] Opening Report: how change the font used?

2009-01-15 Thread Roy Brunjes
I don't like the way the tables look with a non-fixed-width font (nothing lines up in the Move and Themes section. Which font setting (regular, fixed, small?) is used when generating an opening report? Also, can I make a change to the opening report font used without affecting other areas of SC

[Scid-users] Naum4 and "play serious game" in SCID - not working

2009-01-14 Thread Roy Brunjes
Hi, I checked with the Naum4 author and he says this is a bug in SCID -- he says SCID does not sent the 'uci' command to the engine when starting a serious game... Can you confirm and if so, can a fix be developed? Thanks, Roy - Forwarded Message From: Naum Chess To: R

[Scid-users] Promotions not handled properly when promotion piece is uppercase

2009-01-14 Thread Roy Brunjes
I have discovered that promotions are not handled properly when the promotion piece is in upper case (i.e. d2d1Q). It appears that the UCI protocol does not force lower or upper case for the promotion piece so some engines use lower and some use upper case. Can SCID be enhanced to support promo

[Scid-users] Any way to make pieces look nicer when board is very large?

2009-01-13 Thread Roy Brunjes
When I make the board very large, the merida pieces have jagged edges (ok, at least not smooth edges) to them. Is there anything I can do to make those look smoother? Thanks, Roy -- This SF.net email is sponsore

[Scid-users] Load PGN file and games list will not show last game

2009-01-13 Thread Roy Brunjes
I'm running the latest SCID (pulled down from CVS about 15 minutes ago) and I am reading in a PGN file with some games in it (in this case, 78 games). Pressing Ctrl-L (or displayin the game list via mouse and menus) shows a list of games but the last game is NOT shown in the list. Is anyone el

[Scid-users] SCID current CVS version as of 2008/12/31 gives error on make...

2008-12-31 Thread Roy Brunjes
When I try to run make against this version, I get this: r...@roy-laptop:~/chess/scid$ make make: *** No rule to make target `tcl/contrib/combobox.tcl', needed by `scid'. Stop. What is combobox.tcl -- is it new? This is on a Ubuntu-8.10 64-bit OS. Thanks, Roy

[Scid-users] Cannot remove columns in undocked game list window

2008-12-23 Thread Roy Brunjes
I updated from CVS as of yesterday (2008-12-22) and just noticed this (probably a bug for longer than the current version). Open a database and do a search. Then pull up the games list. Undock it (because there's no way to easily display all columns in that docked manner that I can find). Now tr

[Scid-users] Rybka3-64bit and SCID : troubleshooting...

2008-10-09 Thread Roy Brunjes
[EMAIL PROTECTED] When replying, please edit your Subject line so it is more specific than "Re: Contents of Scid-users digest..." Today's Topics: 1. Releases (Pascal Georges) 2. Releases (Pascal Georges) 3. Rybka3-64bit runs via command line on Ubuntu 64-bitbut not

[Scid-users] Rybka3-64bit runs via command line on Ubuntu 64-bit but not with SCID 3.6.25

2008-10-09 Thread Roy Brunjes
(Alexander Wagner) 5. Rybka3-64bit runs via command line on Ubuntu 64-bit with microwine, but not under SCID (Roy Brunjes) 6. Re: Unlock the Tree? (Alexander Wagner) 7. Re: Rybka3-64bit runs via command line on Ubuntu64-bit with microwine, but not under SCID (Pascal Georges)

[Scid-users] Rybka3-64bit runs via command line on Ubuntu 64-bit with microwine, but not under SCID

2008-10-08 Thread Roy Brunjes
I've tried to run Rybka3-64bit with microwine and SCID and it does not work. SCID pops up a dialog that suggests there is a problem with the engine. However, via the command line, I can run Rybka3-64-bit and microwine just fine. Can someone suggest a workaround or clues as to where to look for

[Scid-users] Error starting Rybka-3 64-bit under SCID 3.6.25

2008-08-26 Thread Roy Brunjes
I have set up an engine in SCID for Rybka-3 using microwine. When I try to start Rybka-3 it crashes with "The analysis engine terminated without warning; it probably crashed or had an internal error". The log from this engine in the .scid directory shows (at the end) this: Engine: uciok Scid :

[Scid-users] SCID 3.6.25 : cannot run Rybka3 64-bit engine with microwine

2008-08-20 Thread Roy Brunjes
I am tryng to run a 64-bit Rybka 3 via microwine using SCID on my Ubuntu 8.04 64-bit system. When I start Rybka3 it crashes. Microwine and rybka3 run fine in a terminal window. Any hints as to how to get this working are greatly appreciated. Thanks, Roy

[Scid-users] SCID 3.6.25 : Rybka3 can no longer run 2 engines on dual core system - why?

2008-08-20 Thread Roy Brunjes
I've broken something but I cannot figure out what. Sure, my hash table limitations continue, but now when I try to run the multi-cpu version of Rybka3, 'top' shows that two engines start but quickly only one engine goes away. Is there a log file I can look into to see what error message(s) ma

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 18

2008-08-19 Thread Roy Brunjes
-Inline Message Follows- Hi there Now there's another problem with Rybka 3. It's running allright as long as I limit the hash size to max 32 MB. If the hash is more then 32 MB Rybka 3 is down to 1 kn/s and my cpu usage is only a few % and the HD is running like crazy. All other chess e

[Scid-users] Possible to run 64-bit Rybka3 with SCID?

2008-08-17 Thread Roy Brunjes
I wish to run 64-bit Rybka3 with SCID. I have microwine from the Rybka forum and a 64-bit Ubuntu system to run it on. When I try with the version of SCID currently in CVS I see that Rybka crashes. I can successfully run Rybka-3 64-bit via the command line with microwine, so I know the engine wil

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 25, Issue 3

2008-08-03 Thread Roy Brunjes
ow (Pascal Georges) 5. Re: General Keyboard Shortcuts (Pascal Georges) 6. SCID crashes outright when pasting in this "pgn"... (Roy Brunjes) 7. Re: SCID crashes outright when pasting in this "pgn"... (Pascal Georges) -Inline Attachment Follows- 2

[Scid-users] SCID crashes outright when pasting in this "pgn"...

2008-08-03 Thread Roy Brunjes
1.e4 0.00/0 0 c5 0.00/0 0 2.Sf3 0.00/0 0 d6 0.00/0 0 3.d4 0.00/0 0 cxd4 0.00/0 0 4.Sxd4 0.00/0 0 Sf6 0.00/0 0 5.Sc3 0.00/0 0 a6 0.00/0 0 6.Le3 0.00/0 0 e5 0.00/0 0 7.Sb3 0.00/0 0 Le6 0.00/0 0 8.f3 0.00/0 0 Le7 0.00/0 0 9.Dd2 0.00/0

[Scid-users] Slightly off topic: decreasing size of fonts in Gnome on Ubuntu 8.04 for SCID

2008-07-22 Thread Roy Brunjes
I have created a new virtual machine under VMware to run my Ubuntu system on (it co-exists with my Windoze OS on my company laptop). I took my homedir from my Ubuntu 7.10 virtual machine and tarred it up. I then created a new VM and loaded Ubuntu 8.04 onto it, then restored my homedir files onto

[Scid-users] SCID 3.6.25 : Play Serious Game error - Invalid FEN string

2008-07-06 Thread Roy Brunjes
When I try to play a serious game against a UCI engine (I have no others to test that I am aware of), the opening book phase goes well but when leaving book, I get this error: Error: Invalid FEN string. Invalid FEN string. Invalid FEN string. while executing "sc_game startBoard $fen" (p

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 24, Issue 10

2008-07-06 Thread Roy Brunjes
I'm using the latest code from yesterday (from CVS) and I am seeing that making a move on the board replaces (always) the moves made in the game. The option to ask before replacing moves is enabled (I switched it both ways -- makes no difference). Is this a bug? Before, it would ask if you wante

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 24, Issue 3

2008-07-04 Thread Roy Brunjes
I would like to request that an option be created that will allow the Engine output window to function like the Chessbase GUI analysis window (i.e. scroll the results of the analysis as each ply is searched; the time to reach a given ply and the PV for that ply is not overwritten by the next ply

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 32

2008-06-25 Thread Roy Brunjes
ut (history) is confusing and of little use (I am not aware of any chess app that displays full history). Pascal 2008/6/25 Roy Brunjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: Pascal, I disagree that this is a mis-configuration. Showing multiple PVs is one thing, what I am asking for is entirely different.

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 29

2008-06-24 Thread Roy Brunjes
Pascal, I disagree that this is a mis-configuration. Showing multiple PVs is one thing, what I am asking for is entirely different. Please look closely at the example again and I think you should see what I am asking for is NOT just setting multiPV mode to 4 or something similar. MultiPV set to

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 18

2008-06-22 Thread Roy Brunjes
- What engine do you use ? UCI or xboard ? Pascal 2008/6/22 Roy Brunjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: I tried to post screen shots to show the differences but that may not make it to the rest of you (some sort of moderator action may be needed I think). So, here are the differences (typed by han

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 14

2008-06-22 Thread Roy Brunjes
- Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://sourceforge.net/services/buy/index.php ___ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.s

Re: [Scid-users] Scid-users Digest, Vol 23, Issue 11

2008-06-22 Thread Roy Brunjes
I just downloaded and compiled 3.6.24. The analysis window only shows the current PV and not the previous PVs. Is there a way to show each PV as it is calculated and scroll the PVs so the user can see how it changes over time? Without that, I'm afraid I'll have to go back to .23 ... Thanks, Ro

[Scid-users] Polyglot and SCID

2008-05-02 Thread Roy Brunjes
Pascal, The only comment I can make is this: Rybka with polyglot under SCID gives EXACTLY the same analysis results as Rybka under Chessbase GUIs. How can that be "wrong" in some way? I agree that many times, Rybka under SCID (without Polyglot) finds strong moves sooner than under Chessbase, bu

[Scid-users] More on SCID UCI implementation vs others and affects on engine output

2008-04-29 Thread Roy Brunjes
Continuing a previous email discussion where I checked Glaurung under SCID vs Glaurung under ChessBase GUI... I can make Rybka 2.3.2a behave EXACTLY the same under SCID as I can under ChessBase : just use polyglot instead of using the "built-in" means within SCID of configuring a UCI engine. W

[Scid-users] Engine output differs when using SCID vs ChessBase GUI -- why?

2008-04-22 Thread Roy Brunjes
Hi All, I have been doing some studying of infinite analysis using engines and how they differ when running the engine under SCID from running the engine under other interfaces (I used Shredder8 GUI from Chessbase). The engine was run via wine in both the SCID case and the Chessbase case. The

[Scid-users] Any way to copy analysis lines into paste buffer?

2008-04-13 Thread Roy Brunjes
Hi All, I posted this on CCC but someone there was kind enough to educate me about this email list and he suggested I try my question in this more appropriate forum, so here goes: There no longer seems a way to copy analysis lines from the Analysis window into a paste buffer (so you can paste