[Scidvspc-users] Scid vs news

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

Hello,

Lots of things happening - though the list is quiet.
Most relevant first... Thanks to Gregor who has made some overdue changes
to our player and tournament finders.  They were two widgets Shane left in
an ordinary state, but are technically better now. When i find the time.. a
month or two ?.. will make a new release. There is also a heap of small
changes, and a decent speed-up of engine PV processing.

But more exciting is Britton and i have progressed the Chess 960 support to
a decent working stage, and Britton has forked the project. This is the
sensible thing to do, as there is now a new database format, at the moment,
sa960, and i am too busy to do this. It is quite solid i think :) Brittons
plans for more variant support are a little bold imho, but good luck :) His
announcement is at bottom. The DB format is currently in fact si4, but
because of move encoding differences, it needs renaming (which is handled
by the GUI), as loading the new format into old Scid will throw lots of
undefined behaviour and errors.

And Gregor is also doing a totally amazing rewrite of the slow and buggy
main tk text widget. This will eventually make it into mainstream wish i
think; but for accomplished hackers, they may try compiling it now, using
wish 8.6.5 with this tarball (sometimes updated) overwritten into tk. <
http://scidb.sourceforge.net/tk/package/tk8.6.5-revised.tgz>.
In Scid, these improvements are most evident when handling very long
games/lines in the pgn window.

cheers, Steven

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Britton Farrar <bri...@gm...>
Date: Wed, Aug 24, 2016 at 5:56 AM
Subject: Re: [Scidvspc-users] patch for chess960!

,,,,,

https://github.com/brittonf/scid-vs-variants

.....

My plan is crazyhouse, then bughouse, then capablanca, done in such a way
so you could play capablanca-bughouse-960 if you wanted, even though there
probably is no servers or engines to play with for that. Probably will be
by the time i am done with it though!

Thanks again for your help.

cheers
britton