Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-13 Thread H.G. Muller
Op 1/13/2016 om 12:28 PM schreef Fulvio: > I'm not sure if theusers of this mailing list are particularly > interested in a technical analysis of the Scid format. > However, in short, a general description of the format: > https://chessprogramming.wikispaces.com/Scid > > and the biggest limitatio

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-13 Thread Fulvio
Benoit St-Pierre wrote: > > *** > > I think the other comments were made by Fulvio, so I'll let him > respond to them. > I'm not sure if theusers of this mailing list are particularly interested in a technical analysis of the Scid format. However, in short, a general description of the format: ht

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-13 Thread Fulvio
Bard Martin wrote: > Hello, > from a random user:) > > I'm playing chess960 games on lichess, but importing to scid fails > when it comes to a castling move like below: Hi, Scid unfortunately does not support chess960and there are no plans to implement it in the near future. However, as always, a

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> Neither I like that a new format will be developed, nor I don't like this, for me it doesn't matter, my comments are only hints, and are intended to be neutral. It's about the developers of Scid whether they want to support Chess960, or if they don't want. Fair enough. It seems that your ScidB

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-12 Thread Gregor Cramer
> I have the impression you don't want to commit to my claim because you'd > like a new format to be developed. > > That is, "SCID as we currently know it" could comprise a new format - .si5. > > Am I correct? Neither I like that a new format will be developed, nor I don't like this, for me it

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
> I cannot say yes or no to this. I think you did, with the ".si4 cannot be used for Chess960," since SCID as we currently know it uses .si4. (I've corrected "Chess360" to "Chess960.") *** I have the impression you don't want to commit to my claim because you'd like a new format to be developed

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-12 Thread Gregor Cramer
> I think we can agree that for someone who's looking to play or study 360, > SCID as we currently know it is not the tool. I cannot say yes or no to this. As I stated, Chess960 support needs a lot of work, but it is possible, and without modifications of the move encoding. But a new database ve

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-12 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Thank you for your comments, Gregor. When you say that > support of Chess960 is possible, but a more suitable database format would > be > desirable for this. > you're restating the fact that to implement 360 properly, the SCID format would need to be revised. I'll revise the "require" (it was

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-12 Thread Gregor Cramer
Hi Benoit, please allow me me to spend some words about the Scid format and his capabilities, I have excellent knowledge about this format, and about the development of chess database formats in general. > Implementing 360 would require a complete revision of SCID format: No, it wouldn't, the

Re: [Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-11 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Hello, Implementing 360 would require a complete revision of SCID format: https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/AboutScidFormat/ The answer to your question, I'm afraid, is no, at least for a while. I think the ChessX project is trying to implement 360: http://chessx.sourceforge.net/ If you fin

[Scid-users] Chess960 compatibility, fails on importing a game with castling

2016-01-11 Thread Bard Martin
Hello, from a random user:) I'm playing chess960 games on lichess, but importing to scid fails when it comes to a castling move like below: *Opening lichess_pgn_2016.01.11_Jusuf-Np_vs_baard68.7sJxdGoQ.pgn-2.txt read-onlyImporting file C:\DOCUME~1\Admin\LOCALS~1\Temp\lichess_pgn_2016.01.11_J