Re: [Scidvspc-users] Suggestions

[thetasquared <ch...@th...>]

Nice changes. Ed's page is cool. I only found it a couple weeks ago on
chess.com forums.  What do you mean by "subversion" the only version i see
on the site is 4.8.

thanks, Teddy


On Thu, Oct 11, 2012 at 2:18 AM, Steven <ste...@ya...> wrote:

>
>
> A few months ago Ed made a little tribute page to the project.Thanks :)
> http://www.edcollins.com/chess/scidvspc/what-is-scid-vs-pc.htm
>
> In his bug and wishlist pages, Ed mentions a few bugs:
>
> > When I have a game / position loaded on the screen from an active
> database,
> > and then I paste in a new FEN position, the player information at the
> bottom
> > of the screen does not change.
>
> Yes - this can cause problems, and i've made a commit to address this.
> Paste FEN now saves the current game and creates a new one,
> which is slightly different behaviour, but probably better.
>
> > When I flip the screen and put Black at the bottom, (because I want to
> > play the Black side) and then click PLAY - COMPUTER-UCI ENGINE,
> > and attempt to play a game as Black, it's White's clock that ticks down
>
> I had a go at fixing this too, and it seems better.
>
> > When an engine is analyzing, I think displaying a STOP icon,
> > to indicate how to STOP the engine, would be more ideal than the
> > current icon.  Likewise, when an engine has been stopped, the icon
> > would display a green GO icon
>
> I'll probably keep the current pause/play buttons. They're not very
> distinct,
> i agree, but they're tasteful, and avoid the anglo-centric "stop", "go".
>
> > When I select an engine, the engine  starts analyzing automatically.
> > ...
> > I think it might be best to have this window appear without the  engine
> starting up
>
> Hmmm -  this will probably stay the way it is too. Quick access to
> analysis is best.
>
> > SCID vs. PC should be more forgiving when it comes to invalid FENs.  For
> example, take the following FEN position:
> > rnbq1b1r/p1pp1p1p/4k3/1p1NP1p1/2QP1p2/5N2/PP1B1KPP/n6R/ w
> > (appears on http://membres.multimania.fr/albillo/ajedre2a.htm)
>
> The problem with this webpage's FEN is that the first arg ends with a "/",
> which
> is probably against the FEN standard. ... But it seems reasonable to
> remove a trailing "/"
> from the first arg.
>
> > Finally, a user should be able to paste in a FEN position, that contains
> "FEN:" as the first four characters
>
> Yes, this seems reasonable too, and have made these changes.
>
> Also note , I've  replaced a few of Scid vs. PC's more garish textures
> with 4 of his.
>
> All these minor changes are in subversion.
>
> cheers, Steve
>
>
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