Re: [Scidvspc-users] Saving series/combinations of search criteria

[Steve A <ste...@gm...>]

> I was thinking about opening repertoires recently. Chessbase appears to
> have a feature in which the user outlines his repertoire and can then
> easily search a database for any games in the repertoire. Obviously a
> Scid user can do this by searching a new database for each position one
> at a time. However, it would be nice to be able to outline a repertoire
> once and then be able to use it in searches easily going forward.
> Essentially, this would consist of the user doing a series or
> combination of searches on a database and then somehow saving those
> searches as a single search file that could be used later. In fact,
> there would be no reason why this would have to be limited to the issue
> of repertoires. I might have some very specific, complicated search that
> I often do involving ratings, years, material patterns etc. It would be
> nice to be able to create complicated searches and then save them so
> that they could be used later with just a few clicks. I see that Scid
> vs. PC already has such a thing as saving and loading searches but this
> only seems to be possible for one single search of a specific type (e.g.
> one general search). I am interested in combinations of searches using
> AND/OR options and combining different types of searches (position,
> general, material/pattern, moves). Is there currently any way to do
> something like this, and if not, would this be very hard to implement?
> Thanks.

I havent really thought about this too much, but a couple of things come
to mind.

It would be possible to concatenate saved searches into a single search file,
but i'm not sure if this is too helpful, or worth the
complexity/programming effort.
(Currently of course one may manually load a few searches back to back
and AND/OR them as one pleases.)

I'm also interested in learning/overhauling the EPD file feature properly.
This allows for quick access to different positions, but currently i'm
not very familiar with it. Perhaps using this feature is helpful when
studying one's repertoire.

Steven