Re: [Scidvspc-users] C/CIF + Chess Assistant + Rybka Aquarium

[Gregor C. <re...@gm...>]

> > 1. Rybka Aquarium supports move markers like coloured arrows, rectangles,
> > filled rectangles, circles, and some more additional markers (also called
> > graphical annotation, see http://chessok.com/?p=23017 for screenshots). Who
> > can send me a PGN export file of Rybka Aquarium with such markers?
> 
> Do you need all of them? Besides of those standard symbols Aquarium supports
> lots of additional markers, marked areas, numbers, chars and some strange
> symbols like mushrooms(!), everything in different styles and colours.

Yes, I need all, but this does not mean all combinations. Normally the color
symbol, for example, is the same for all markers. I think that the following
can be sufficient:

  - all markers with the same color and style, for example red
  - one of the markers, for example the rectangle, with all colors
  - another marker, for example the arrow, with all styles

But I don't know how many styles Aquarium is supporting. Hopefully it's
not too time consuming to create such a game.

C/CIF will provide a library for the handling of all features in chess
applications, this is in general only possible with a full support of all these
features, and only the markers are still unknown for me (so far as I currently
know about other chess applications). Of course it might be possible that I will
decide not to support very special features like mushroom symbols, but the
decision will also depend on the encoding used in PGN export files of Aquarium.

Cheers,
Gregor