[Scidvspc-users] Computer Tournament and Spelling update

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

Hi Everyone,
Uwe Klimmek has been messing with the tournament feature,
and has made some interesting changes. He sums them up:

> - Improved layout
> - Saving and loading tournaments
> - A slipping system (Rutschsystem, carousel) for a better round  system.
> Perhaps you know that from Arena.
> - Automated adaptation of engine selection fields.
> - Selection of the games to be played. This way you can also play a
> tournament in parallel by starting 2x scidvspc.
> - Saving the used time
> - Interrupt and resume a tournament after a game.
>

I also note he has added a handy status bar, made losing on time a lot
harder, and removed my ugly "12 engine" limit.

I'm not sure how much of the changes i will adopt (A couple of them at
least, and maybe all) but users can try out his version by replacing
comp.tcl in scid.gui with the attached version, or by recompiling with it.
In the tournament, if you select "Save Move Time", you'll also have to make
this 1 line change in tcl/tools/graphs.tcl (though this has been fixed in
subversion).

    if {$type == "Score Combo" && [llength $scoreValues] < 5} {
>       # Scale to emt yaxis , as no Scores
>       # ... or we *could* use a "total time" scale if we recalculate
> yticks, hlines
>       set scale [expr $maxEmt / $maxLines]
>     } else {
>       set scale [expr $max / $maxLines]
>     }
> +    *if { $maxLines <= 0 } { set scale 0 }*
>     set scaledWhiteValues {}
>     set scaledBlackValues {}
>


Uwe has also been making some ttk (Themed Tk) changes to mainline Scid, and
also updated Scid's Spelling  (with Player data and ratings) , Rating and
Photo files.

A new (derived) spelling.ssp is now in our subversion, or you can download
his files from https://sourceforge.net/projects/scid/files/Player%20Data/

Cheers, Steve