Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

An excellent place to start is ICOFY - http://sourceforge.net/projects/icofybase/ - it is an open source collection of chess games, although many of them are weaker games. You could always filter out all games of less than 2200 ELO points per player though. I find it best to combine ICOFY with all

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

My webpage has links to some places to get pgn files etc www.botchvinik.netrcs.com/chess.htm Magnus Larsson wrote: Hi again! Concerning databases: any suggestions on where to find good collections to download and play with? Googling for it mostly gives me online databases, like http://chesso

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

Hi again! Concerning databases: any suggestions on where to find good collections to download and play with? Googling for it mostly gives me online databases, like http://chessopeningsdatabase.com/ Best, Magnus Dale Hards wrote: > > > On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Magnus Larsson

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

Hi! Thanks. I thought I was working in a scid database, but it turned out that I was using the pgn-file. Magnus Alexander Wagner wrote: > Magnus Larsson wrote: > > Hi! > >> Great, now it works. I see your point about too large database too. >> As I am new to opening training with a datab

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

Marius Roets wrote: Hi! [...] > openings, choose the white openings icon, if you have both, choose > the black and white openings icon, etc, etc. > > Thanks for this explanation. I have been using SCID for quite some time, > but I have never used this functionality, so I thought I'd giv

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

Hi Dale, On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 4:27 PM, Dale Hards wrote: > > To answer your question - there's lots of ways you can construct a > repertoire. Basically, the process is - get a database of games with the > openings you want, perhaps a database of just the Bishop's Opening for > example, then fi

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

Magnus Larsson wrote: Hi! > Great, now it works. I see your point about too large database too. As I > am new to opening training with a database program, there are a few > things to pick up I'll check into this. It should not be necessary to restart Scid. At least not by design. BTW: Yo

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

Hi! Great, now it works. I see your point about too large database too. As I am new to opening training with a database program, there are a few things to pick up While I am at it: when I annotate a game with crafty, the annotations are not saved, and the option "save: replace game" is not

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

Apologies I forgot to send this to all. Magnus, I have found the problem. You need to restart SCID to pick up the new database type. Also, it appears you don't have to flag games to get the Opening Trainer to work, but it does make it better. Dale On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 6:03 PM, Dale Hards wrot

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

Hi! Great, thanks. But I follow your instructions, that is, I do this: I take a database I have with a lt of games, and filter so I only have Sicilian opening (ECO codes B20-B99). Then I create a new database from the menu, call it sicilian_openings, and copy all the filtered games there

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 8:08 AM, Magnus Larsson wrote: > Hi! > Hi! > > Also, the feature "Play - Training - Openings" souds interesting - but > it asks med to first open repertoire database. So what is that...? How > do I find or construct one? > As Alexander has said there is a help file, whi

Re: [Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

Magnus Larsson wrote: Hi! > I am very uncertain about if this i the right place to ask this . but: Well, where else? ;) > I have begun to use the analysis and annotation features of scid, using > crafty as analysis engine. However, the annotation contains symbols and > abbreviations that

[Scid-users] Analysis with crafty

Hi! I am very uncertain about if this i the right place to ask this . but: I have begun to use the analysis and annotation features of scid, using crafty as analysis engine. However, the annotation contains symbols and abbreviations that I don't understand and so far cannot find information