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

Dear friends, I have used the chess engine Stockfishchess engine which some claim is stronger than Toga2 (and which can be downloaded here ) and so far I am very i

[Scid-users] application to convert CB->PGN/SCID

Hi, Does anybody know of a application running under GNU/Linux which could convert a database in CB format to either PGN or, better, SCID4 database format? thanks! Andrei -- Come build with us! The BlackBerry(R) Develope

[Scid-users] how do I do that with SCID? (filtering; database maintenance)

Hi, I need some help with database filtering. Here is what I would want to do: I load up some large database (say the 1.74 million games database). Then, I would like to do the following: *I) find how many times this exact positio

Re: [Scid-users] (Pascal Georges) Re: 2 feature requested

and where > my opponent missed chances. So I even do not understand the options to > analyze a game from one side. > > Also it does not save much time, if the engine is allowed to reuse > evaluations when it switches to the next move. > > > > Gerd >

[Scid-users] (Pascal Georges) Re: 2 feature requested

On Thu, Oct 15, 2009 at 2:13 AM, wrote: > > All this seems too specific for me : complex UI for very particular use. > > Pascal It might be a complex UI to create, but at a time when scholastic chess is attracting more and more kids I think that both parents and chess coaches would greatly appr

Re: [Scid-users] anyone have experience with Stockfish 1.5 or Thinker engines?

> > Message: 4 > Date: Sat, 10 Oct 2009 16:26:53 +0200 > From: Oliver Korff > Subject: Re: [Scid-users] anyone have experience with Stockfish 1.5 or >Thinker engines? > To: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: <200910101626.54740...@xynyx.de> > Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=

[Scid-users] 2 feature requested

Hi, My three kids have played in a tournament this Saturday and I used the excellent auto-annotate capability of SCID to analyze their games overnight. Three kids, having played 5 games each, that is a total of 15 games which I analyzed. Since they played both Black and White, I chose the option

[Scid-users] anyone have experience with Stockfish 1.5 or Thinker engines?

Dear friends, I just saw this comment on the chess.com equipment forum: *Stockfish 1.5 (derivative of Glaurung) is now the undisputed king of the open source engines. The Fruit family (e.g. Toga etc) has finally been dethroned. Stockfish and Thinker are my two favorite practice partners -- they

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

On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:36 PM, wrote: > Message: 3 > Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2009 21:13:04 +0100 > From: Dale Hards > Subject: Re: [Scid-users] couple of questions about databases > To: scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net > Message-ID: > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" > > Hi, >

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

I don't have my laptop with SCID4.0 with me, but I will re-try later today or tomorrow and let you know if that happens again. On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 3:08 PM, Alexander Wagner < a.wag...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: > andrei raevsky wrote: > > Hi! > > >>

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

rch to find all games with both > players above 2200 and then use the "Database switcher" function to copy the > games in the filter to a new database. > > - Original Message ----- > *From:* andrei raevsky > *To:* Alexander Wagner > *Cc:* scid-users@lists.sourcefo

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

On Tue, Oct 6, 2009 at 11:57 AM, Alexander Wagner < a.wag...@physik.uni-wuerzburg.de> wrote: > >> a) I have downloaded the huge ICOfY database ( >> http://sourceforge.net/projects/icofybase/) which now contains over 4 >> million games. I have combined the 5 subases (A through E) into one SCID4 >>

[Scid-users] couple of questions about databases

Hi Ignacio, I had no problems opening the ICOFY databases and compacting it into one SCID4.0 database. I have not have had the time to work with the resulting databse yet, but I did look throught the game list window and everything looked ok. That was on a computer running Ubuntu GNU/Linux, with

[Scid-users] couple of questions about databases

Dear friends, I have two questions about how to best use databases with SCID4.0: a) I have downloaded the huge ICOfY database ( http://sourceforge.net/projects/icofybase/) which now contains over 4 million games. I have combined the 5 subases (A through E) into one SCID4 database. What I would

Re: [Scid-users] how to use Scid to analyze a game and evaluate a position

Thanks a lot for these pointers all of which worked perfectly for my needs. I have only one small issue: after Scid is done analyzing a game, the "export to html" option has a small issue: the bitmaps are not exported and, as a result, the "snapshots" of the board do not show the pieces but only th

[Scid-users] how to use Scid to analyze a game and evaluate a position

Hi, I am using Scid 3.7.3 help my three chess-playing kids. One of the things I do is to load their games and, move by move, see what Toga2 would have done and compare it with what they did. My question is: is that the most effective way to use Scid to analyze a game or *is there something else

[Scid-users] Scid 3.7.3 engines crash

Hi, After installing tcl/tk 8.5 in Ubuntu Linux 8.04LTS I succeeded in compiling Scid 3.7.3 on my machine. Everything seems to be running ok until I try to load a chess engine. Here is what happens: First, I click on the "stop/start engine analysis" icon. I get a choice of Toga II 1.3.4, Scidle

Re: [Scid-users] a noob question about Scid usage

On Thu, Jul 23, 2009 at 4:20 PM, Alexander Wagner wrote: > > In 3.6.1 you'll not be able to use Toga directly as this is > a pure UCI engine. 3.6.1 does not support the UCI protocol > but only the xboard protocol. Therefore, to use Toga you > need an adaptor program called "polyglot". To configure

[Scid-users] a noob question about Scid usage

Dear friends, I have recently discovered Scid (which I use on a Ubuntu Linux machine, so it is a version 3.6.1 using Tcl/Tk v 8.4.18) which I want to use to support my three kids who are good chess players. I have learned how to import a pgn database into the clipbase, how the analysis engine wor