[Scid-users] Re: Scid-users digest, Vol 1 #66 - 1 msg

[Bradley M. S. <Abs...@fi...>]

How about a default database to autostart? Also, I just looked at
middleg.zip from osmeritz book site, they have the text stuff, so you can
kind of read it like a book, something like that would be interesting.Just a
thought or two

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>    1. Some suggestions for 2.8 (John Wiegley)
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> From: John Wiegley <jo...@gn...>
> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2001 10:58:52 -0700
> Subject: [Scid-users] Some suggestions for 2.8
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> Dear Shane,
>
> Here are a few more ideas that have come up since 2.6:
>
> 1. Bookmarking.  I would like a global bookmarking feature, which
>    would allow me to set a mark on a certain position (possibly within
>    a variation) of any game in any database.  This set of bookmarks
>    would be global, and not specific to any one database.  It would be
>    persistent as well.  This helps when studying several games from
>    several books, when suddenly it's time to go to sleep and end the
>    day.
>
> 2. Move history.  When I play tournament games, I set my Chronos to
>    remember how long I spent on each move.  Sometimes, this helps me
>    see where my serious errors were and why.  It would be nice if,
>    optionally, I could record "when" I made each move within a game.
>
>    I can understand this would increase the size of each move in the
>    database by at least four bytes, but I don't want it on every game.
>    As an option, it would be useful for both historical record and
>    analysis.  If a master game ever had this information, it would
>    help me get a little further inside their thinking!
>
>    In the game info page (the window below the chess board), I'd like
>    to see the time spent on each move for games which have such
>    history data recorded.
>
>    There should also be two methods of entering move history data: by
>    typing the move duration into the "Game comment" window, and by
>    scid automatically recording the moment when the piece was moved.
>    I'd prefer it if the latter method were the default, whose results
>    I could then edit in the game comment window.
>
> 3. Replacing the e-mail tool.  Ideas #1 and #2 above, implemented
>    together, would effectively replace the utility of the e-mail tool.
>    #1 would give you a way to keep track of which games you are
>    playing with which people, and #2 would record the move history so
>    that you realize how much time has passed since the last move.
>
>    To complete this ueber-tool requires two more input boxes in the
>    game save page: White's e-mail address and Black's e-mail address.
>    If either of these is set, it means this game is an e-mail game.
>    There should then appear an "e-mail move" button in the toolbar.
>
>    I would find this scheme more flexible than the current e-mail
>    tool, since it would be useful for three purposes: bookmarking,
>    historical record, and e-mail tracking, rather than just one.
>
> 4. Transpositions.  I have discovered a deficiency in the ECO2PGN tool
>    that I wrote, since it does not understand transpositions.  This
>    led me to realize that in general, the Tree Window only shows "next
>    moves" when all of game's previous moves exactly correspond.
>
>    My request is: when building the tree window, do not consider the
>    history, but only the exact position after N moves.  This way,
>    although my first eight moves may differ from a master's game, if
>    my ninth move results in a positional match, then I really AM
>    interested in what the master did after that, since now we are
>    basically playing the same game from that point.
>
> 5. Remembering "me".  I'd like a box, somewhere, where I can enter a
>    list of names that are my own.  Then, if I load a game where I am
>    black or white, it will flip the board automatically to show my
>    perspective.
>
>    I find myself playing several e-mail games, and always being
>    confused by the board layout until I realize that it needs to be
>    flipped.  Since scid should know which player I am, it could do
>    this for me automatically.
>
> 6. Material values, space and time.
>
>    I really that scid can show me the current material values for each
>    side.  There are three additions I'd like to make to this feature:
>
>    a. Have it do the subtraction for me, so the display reads:
>       (31-26:+5).  Advantages for white would be +, and black -.
>
>    b. Add a "space advantage" count, where scid counts the number of
>       over-controlled squares on the enemy's side of the board.  This
>       means either a square I control which my opponent does not, or a
>       square for which I have more attackers than he has defenders.
>       These would be counted up and also shown with a delta: (9-5:+4).
>
>    c. Add a "tempo" count.  This is a bit harder, but I think I've
>       found an algorithm that would work well enough: have a counter
>       for each piece.  Every time a piece moves, increase this counter
>       by one.  If a piece moves back to a square it was already on,
>       subtract all the points accrued in the interim.
>
>       Add all these counters together for each side to determine the
>       current amount of tempi invested on the board.  If a piece is
>       taken, all its tempi are removed from that side's count.  This
>       would roughly show how who has an advantage in time, since the
>       side with more tempi should, in theory, have a more developed
>       position: (23-18:+5).
>
> Thumbs up for scid,
>   John
>
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