Re: [Scid-users] Show variations

2008-10-15 Thread Alexander Wagner
Benoit St-Pierre wrote: Hi! > 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 > ( 3...Nc6 ) > ( 3...Bd7 ) > * > > This seems to work well. Maybe one can enter them, but not read them ? This works of course in both directions, ie. input and view. I use this all the time to annotate and analyse in my CC ga

Re: [Scid-users] Show variations

2008-10-14 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
With the mouse, I entered this : [Event "Sicilian"] [Site "?"] [Date ".??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "?"] [Black "?"] [Result "*"] [ECO "B52"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf3 d6 3.Bb5+ Nd7 ( 3...Nc6 ) ( 3...Bd7 ) * This seems to work well. Maybe one can enter them, but not read them ? -

Re: [Scid-users] Show variations

2008-10-14 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Here is the paragraph 8.2.5: > An RAV (Recursive Annotation Variation) is a sequence of movetext containing > one or more moves enclosed in parentheses. An RAV is used to represent an > alternative variation. The alternate move sequence given by an RAV is one > that may be legally played by fir

Re: [Scid-users] Show variations

2008-10-14 Thread Henk van Lingen
>>From Changelog file (january 2007) : > > "- modified the way variants are handled : Scid can read recursive > variations but the user can no longer enter > them. Oke, I see the difference now, thanks both. I somehow had inserted things in the wrong place, it seems. I've edited the pgn and re-imp

Re: [Scid-users] Show variations

2008-10-14 Thread Pascal Georges
>From Changelog file (january 2007) : "- modified the way variants are handled : Scid can read recursive variations but the user can no longer enter them. I will put this back if someone can tell me any use case of the VAR described at para 8.2.5 of PGN standards (modified ::move::Back in move.tcl

Re: [Scid-users] Show variations

2008-10-14 Thread Benoit St-Pierre
Here is the explanation : 3...Nd7 is the alternative to the main variation, and 3...Nc6 is the alternative to this alternative. If you enter into the 3...Bd7 line, you'll see the 3...Nc6. A faster way to navigate through the PGN is to use the PGN Window. Hit CTRL-P or click on the PGN icon. Then

[Scid-users] Show variations

2008-10-14 Thread Henk van Lingen
Why is it that a pgn file with contents like below, results in showing only two move options after 3 Bb5+ instead of three? Is it a bug, or do I miss something (scid 3.6.26) [Event "Sicilian"] [Site "?"] [Date ".??.??"] [Round "?"] [White "?"] [Black "?"] [Result "*"] [ECO "B52"] 1.e4 c5 2.Nf