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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Using Leela-chess (LcZero) engine in scidvspc in Linux :hard to start the engine

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

I tried to install the engine from source, but even after installing the
prerequisite packages, i had some unresolved header dependency (boost 3 i
think) ... so I'm not sure the Linux install instructions are complete.

Maybe someone could post a statically linked binary ?


On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 7:41 PM, Jerome Monscavoir <jmo...@gm...>
wrote:

> Do you realize that you are sarcistic and insulting ? so what do you
> expect in return ? love word ?
>
> Please do not send me any value judgement about here on the list : it is a
> fault
> Use unstead private channel to insult me of give judgement value
>
> Please send usefull explanation about my "ignorance"  Please be more
> clear : what i ignore ?
>
> Is there something you don't understand in my mail ?
> You don't understand about what i mean when i use "binary" word ?
>
> Or do you simply judging people about there level value in english ? if it
> is the case you need some help
>
> Do you think your remark 'ignorance" is a usefull here for any
> constructive thing here ?
>
>
>
> 2018-05-14 11:16 GMT+02:00 Ali Polatel <po...@gm...>:
>
>> > .sp.ce d. gr.s conn.rd
>>
>> Please do not send me hate via private channels. Please send me love
>> instead.
>>
>> To repeat
>>
>> if somebody need the linux build binary for (only for CPU) i can provide
>>
>>
>> I'd be happy to have a binary.
>>
>> I'd be happy without a binary.
>>
>> Me?
>>
>> w/e,
>>
>>
>> On Sun, 13 May 2018, 13:47 Ali Polatel, <po...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Thu, 10 May 2018, 10:35 Jerome Monscavoir, <jmo...@gm...>
>>> wrote:
>>>
>>
>
>
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Using Leela-chess (LcZero) engine in scidvspc in Linux :hard to start the engine

[Jerome M. <jmo...@gm...>]

Do you realize that you are sarcistic and insulting ? so what do you expect
in return ? love word ?

Please do not send me any value judgement about here on the list : it is a
fault
Use unstead private channel to insult me of give judgement value

Please send usefull explanation about my "ignorance"  Please be more clear
: what i ignore ?

Is there something you don't understand in my mail ?
You don't understand about what i mean when i use "binary" word ?

Or do you simply judging people about there level value in english ? if it
is the case you need some help

Do you think your remark 'ignorance" is a usefull here for any constructive
thing here ?



2018-05-14 11:16 GMT+02:00 Ali Polatel <po...@gm...>:

> > .sp.ce d. gr.s conn.rd
>
> Please do not send me hate via private channels. Please send me love
> instead.
>
> To repeat
>
> if somebody need the linux build binary for (only for CPU) i can provide
>
>
> I'd be happy to have a binary.
>
> I'd be happy without a binary.
>
> Me?
>
> w/e,
>
>
> On Sun, 13 May 2018, 13:47 Ali Polatel, <po...@gm...> wrote:
>
>>
>>
>> On Thu, 10 May 2018, 10:35 Jerome Monscavoir, <jmo...@gm...>
>> wrote:
>>
>


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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Using Leela-chess (LcZero) engine in scidvspc in Linux :hard to start the engine

[Ali P. <po...@gm...>]

> .sp.ce d. gr.s conn.rd

Please do not send me hate via private channels. Please send me love
instead.

To repeat

if somebody need the linux build binary for (only for CPU) i can provide


I'd be happy to have a binary.

I'd be happy without a binary.

Me?

w/e,


On Sun, 13 May 2018, 13:47 Ali Polatel, <po...@gm...> wrote:

>
>
> On Thu, 10 May 2018, 10:35 Jerome Monscavoir, <jmo...@gm...>
> wrote:
>

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Using Leela-chess (LcZero) engine in scidvspc in Linux :hard to start the engine

[Jerome M. <jmo...@gm...>]

What you mean Ali exactly ?

2018-05-14 9:20 GMT+02:00 Ali Polatel <po...@gm...>:

> 2018-05-13 19:15 GMT+02:00 Jerome Monscavoir <jmo...@gm...>:
> > Thanks Ali for your very usefull answer
>
> Thank you Jerome for your ignorance
>



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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Using Leela-chess (LcZero) engine in scidvspc in Linux :hard to start the engine

[Ali P. <po...@gm...>]

2018-05-13 19:15 GMT+02:00 Jerome Monscavoir <jmo...@gm...>:
> Thanks Ali for your very usefull answer

Thank you Jerome for your ignorance

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Using Leela-chess (LcZero) engine in scidvspc in Linux :hard to start the engine

[Jerome M. <jmo...@gm...>]

Thanks Ali for your very usefull answer

2018-05-13 13:47 GMT+02:00 Ali Polatel <po...@gm...>:

>
>
> On Thu, 10 May 2018, 10:35 Jerome Monscavoir, <jmo...@gm...>
> wrote:
>
>> Hello all,
>>
>> Like you may know, there is a new chess UCI engine called LcZeo or
>> leela-chess
>>
>> it is the PC version alpha-zero, see :
>>
>> https://en.chessbase.com/post/leela-chess-zero-alphazero-for-the-pc
>>
>> and to install on scid :
>>
>> https://github.com/glinscott/leela-chess/wiki/Running-
>> Leela-Chess-Zero-in-a-Chess-G
>> <https://github.com/glinscott/leela-chess/wiki/Running-Leela-Chess-Zero-in-a-Chess-GUI>
>>
>
>> Here down the console output of the run of the command (in red my
>> command):
>>
>> *monscavoir@monscavoir-B85M-HD3:~$
>> /home/monscavoir/leela-chess/build/lczero -w
>> /home/monscavoir/leela-chess/build/weights_267.txt*
>> *Using 2 thread(s).*
>> *Detecting residual layers...v2...192 channels...15 blocks.*
>> update : now i can run but i get no output and when i clic on info to get
>> NPS and other info a
>> i tried to edit and "hack" uci.tcl adding some delay like "*after 10000*"
>> on some place but i failed
>>
>> last update : it seems to work fine now
>>
>> if somebody need the linux build binary for (only for CPU) i can provide
>>
>
> I'd be happy to have a binary. She will soon be a thriller, i hope.
>
>
>> Thanks
>>
>
> Thanks
>
>>
>> Sorry for heavy mail
>>
>
> Maybe mix with heavy metal
>
>
>> Regards
>>
>
> Cheers,
>
>
>>
>> --
>> Jerome Monscavoir
>> jmo...@gm...
>> 06 07 90 89 57
>>
>>
>>
>>
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>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot______
>> _________________________________________
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>>
>


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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Using Leela-chess (LcZero) engine in scidvspc in Linux :hard to start the engine

[Ali P. <po...@gm...>]

On Thu, 10 May 2018, 10:35 Jerome Monscavoir, <jmo...@gm...> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> Like you may know, there is a new chess UCI engine called LcZeo or
> leela-chess
>
> it is the PC version alpha-zero, see :
>
> https://en.chessbase.com/post/leela-chess-zero-alphazero-for-the-pc
>
> and to install on scid :
>
>
> https://github.com/glinscott/leela-chess/wiki/Running-Leela-Chess-Zero-in-a-Chess-G
> <https://github.com/glinscott/leela-chess/wiki/Running-Leela-Chess-Zero-in-a-Chess-GUI>
>

> Here down the console output of the run of the command (in red my command):
>
> *monscavoir@monscavoir-B85M-HD3:~$
> /home/monscavoir/leela-chess/build/lczero -w
> /home/monscavoir/leela-chess/build/weights_267.txt*
> *Using 2 thread(s).*
> *Detecting residual layers...v2...192 channels...15 blocks.*
> update : now i can run but i get no output and when i clic on info to get
> NPS and other info a
> i tried to edit and "hack" uci.tcl adding some delay like "*after 10000*"
> on some place but i failed
>
> last update : it seems to work fine now
>
> if somebody need the linux build binary for (only for CPU) i can provide
>

I'd be happy to have a binary. She will soon be a thriller, i hope.


> Thanks
>

Thanks

>
> Sorry for heavy mail
>

Maybe mix with heavy metal


> Regards
>

Cheers,


>
> --
> Jerome Monscavoir
> jmo...@gm...
> 06 07 90 89 57
>
>
>
>
>
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>

[Scidvspc-users] Using Leela-chess (LcZero) engine in scidvspc in Linux :hard to start the engine

[Jerome M. <jmo...@gm...>]

Hello all,

Like you may know, there is a new chess UCI engine called LcZeo or
leela-chess

it is the PC version alpha-zero, see :

https://en.chessbase.com/post/leela-chess-zero-alphazero-for-the-pc

and to install on scid :

https://github.com/glinscott/leela-chess/wiki/Running-Leela-Chess-Zero-in-a-Chess-GUI

I failed to install, i share here my analysis that need to be check

This engine could be compiled using (or not) the Nvidia GPU (CUDA),
compiled it on my computer using CUDA and my graphic card

Here down the console output of the run of the command (in red my command):

*monscavoir@monscavoir-B85M-HD3:~$
/home/monscavoir/leela-chess/build/lczero -w
/home/monscavoir/leela-chess/build/weights_267.txt*
*Using 2 thread(s).*
*Detecting residual layers...v2...192 channels...15 blocks.*
*Initializing OpenCL.*
*Detected 1 OpenCL platforms.*
*Platform version: OpenCL 1.2 CUDA 9.1.84*
*Platform profile: FULL_PROFILE*
*Platform name:    NVIDIA CUDA*
*Platform vendor:  NVIDIA Corporation*
*Device ID:     0*
*Device name:   GeForce GT 630*
*Device type:   GPU*
*Device vendor: NVIDIA Corporation*
*Device driver: 390.30*
*Device speed:  1620 MHz*
*Device cores:  2 CU*
*Device score:  1112*
*Selected platform: NVIDIA CUDA*
*Selected device: GeForce GT 630*
*with OpenCL 1.2 capability.*
*Loaded existing SGEMM tuning.*
*Wavefront/Warp size: 32*
*Max workgroup size: 1024*
*Max workgroup dimensions: 1024 1024 64 *
*BLAS Core: Nehalem*
*info string Found 145 wdl tablebases*
*info string Found 145 dtz tablebases*
*uci*
*id name lczero v0.8*
*id author The LCZero Authors*
*option name Threads type spin default 2 min 1 max 2*
*option name Quiet type check default false*
*option name FPU Reduction type string default 0.100000*
*option name Puct type string default 0.600000*
*option name SlowMover type spin default 89 min 1 max 2147483647*
*option name Go Nodes Visits type check default true*
*uciok*
*isready*
*readyok*


i remark that the output take some seconds to occur and to appear

in scid i faild  to configure (trying many way)


the result is always


update : now i can run but i get no output and when i clic on info to get
NPS and other info and






i tried to edit and "hack" uci.tcl adding some delay like "*after 10000*"
on some place but i failed

last update : it seems to work fine now

if somebody need the linux build binary for (only for CPU) i can provide

Thanks

Sorry for heavy mail

Regards


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06 07 90 89 57

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Delivery Status Notification (Failure)

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

Ok, laugh, I have fixed that up. Now the buttons make the widget too high
(see screenshot attached)
... so i should probably have used a drop-box, but individual buttons are
so satisfying :)

The new code is in subversion, or just replace "board.tcl" in scid.gui with
the attached version,
replacing the lines between
# board.tcl: part of Scid
and
### End of file: board.tcl

Steven

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> Subject: Re: [Scidvspc-users] New high def pieces
> Ok, laugh, I have fixed that up. Now the buttons make the widget too high
> (see screenshot attached)
> ... so i should probably have used a drop-box, but individual buttons are
> so satisfying :)
>
> The new code is in subversion, or just replace "board.tcl" in scid.gui
> with the attached version,
> replacing the lines between
> ----- Message truncated -----
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] New high def pieces

[Jerome M. <jmo...@gm...>]

i forget : it is on Ubuntu 16.04 on XFCE (ubuntu studio)

2018-04-23 8:48 GMT+02:00 Jerome Monscavoir <jmo...@gm...>:

> Hello,
>
> I confirm what Alan said. the list of button to choose the chess pieces
> are set on 2 lines : window is too large (larger that screen) and not
> possible to resize
> But anyway : Many graphic arereally  great and HD is very welcome for
> large size screen :
>
> Thank you very much !!!
>
>
> 2018-04-23 2:12 GMT+02:00 Alan Whiteman <a.c...@gm...>:
>
>> Just an FYI - In Linux Mint 18, and scidvspc 19, the Chess Pieces window
>> expands beyond the edges and is not resizeable.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> On 04/21/2018 09:40 PM, Steve A wrote:
>>
>>> Grant Goldenberg has made a heap of high definition chess pieces :)
>>> I don't know if there are copyright restrictions on any of these
>>> ... but afaics most/all chess pieces are freely reproducible.
>>> My favourites are 3DWoodHD.tcl  Chess-7HD.tcl  ChessPlainHD.tcl
>>> LineHD.tcl  MedievalHD.tcl  SmoothHD.tcl
>>> Below is the link to the 50meg file, with a small README included.
>>> See the "Board textures and pieces" help item for installation
>>> instructions.
>>>
>>> S.A.
>>>
>>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/support%20fi
>>> les/chess%20pieces/goldenbergg_high_dpi_pieces.tgz/download
>>>
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------
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>>> engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot
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>>>
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>


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Re: [Scidvspc-users] New high def pieces

[Jerome M. <jmo...@gm...>]

Hello,

I confirm what Alan said. the list of button to choose the chess pieces are
set on 2 lines : window is too large (larger that screen) and not possible
to resize
But anyway : Many graphic arereally  great and HD is very welcome for large
size screen :

Thank you very much !!!


2018-04-23 2:12 GMT+02:00 Alan Whiteman <a.c...@gm...>:

> Just an FYI - In Linux Mint 18, and scidvspc 19, the Chess Pieces window
> expands beyond the edges and is not resizeable.
>
>
>
>
>
> On 04/21/2018 09:40 PM, Steve A wrote:
>
>> Grant Goldenberg has made a heap of high definition chess pieces :)
>> I don't know if there are copyright restrictions on any of these
>> ... but afaics most/all chess pieces are freely reproducible.
>> My favourites are 3DWoodHD.tcl  Chess-7HD.tcl  ChessPlainHD.tcl
>> LineHD.tcl  MedievalHD.tcl  SmoothHD.tcl
>> Below is the link to the 50meg file, with a small README included.
>> See the "Board textures and pieces" help item for installation
>> instructions.
>>
>> S.A.
>>
>> https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/support%
>> 20files/chess%20pieces/goldenbergg_high_dpi_pieces.tgz/download
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] New high def pieces

[Alan W. <a.c...@gm...>]

Just an FYI - In Linux Mint 18, and scidvspc 19, the Chess Pieces window 
expands beyond the edges and is not resizeable.




On 04/21/2018 09:40 PM, Steve A wrote:
> Grant Goldenberg has made a heap of high definition chess pieces :)
> I don't know if there are copyright restrictions on any of these
> ... but afaics most/all chess pieces are freely reproducible.
> My favourites are 3DWoodHD.tcl  Chess-7HD.tcl  ChessPlainHD.tcl 
> LineHD.tcl  MedievalHD.tcl  SmoothHD.tcl
> Below is the link to the 50meg file, with a small README included.
> See the "Board textures and pieces" help item for installation 
> instructions.
>
> S.A.
>
> https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/support%20files/chess%20pieces/goldenbergg_high_dpi_pieces.tgz/download
>
>
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[Scidvspc-users] New high def pieces

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

Grant Goldenberg has made a heap of high definition chess pieces :)
I don't know if there are copyright restrictions on any of these
... but afaics most/all chess pieces are freely reproducible.
My favourites are 3DWoodHD.tcl  Chess-7HD.tcl  ChessPlainHD.tcl  LineHD.tcl
 MedievalHD.tcl  SmoothHD.tcl
Below is the link to the 50meg file, with a small README included.
See the "Board textures and pieces" help item for installation instructions.

S.A.

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/support%20files/chess%20pieces/goldenbergg_high_dpi_pieces.tgz/download

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Quick position searches

[Kayvan S. <kay...@gm...>]

Cool stuff! Thanks!

> On Mar 30, 2018, at 22:27, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:
> 
> Sorry for the spam, but this feature may get ignored for a while unless i mention it....
> 
> In subversion, I've implemented quick CQL position searches using the Shift+button-1 board marking feature. To use it, Mark the pieces on the board you want to search for with Shift+MouseClick, then open the CQL search window.
> The pieces are now automatically inserted as search parameters.
> Attached is a small screenshot to illustrate the idea.
> 
> Re the gamelist 'Country' field, i have enforced this idea.
> Country sorts and gamelist fields are now only shown if
> * the fourth last letter is a space.
> * the third last letter is capitalized
> But on unfortunately we are missing "USSR" now
> 
> Steve
> <cql.jpg>
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[Scidvspc-users] Quick position searches

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

Sorry for the spam, but this feature may get ignored for a while unless i
mention it....

In subversion, I've implemented quick CQL position searches using the
Shift+button-1 board marking feature. To use it, Mark the pieces on the
board you want to search for with Shift+MouseClick, then open the CQL
search window.
The pieces are now automatically inserted as search parameters.
Attached is a small screenshot to illustrate the idea.

Re the gamelist 'Country' field, i have enforced this idea.
Country sorts and gamelist fields are now only shown if
* the fourth last letter is a space.
* the third last letter is capitalized
But on unfortunately we are missing "USSR" now

Steve

[Scidvspc-users] Gamelist 'Country' column

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

Though it's not well documented, the gamelist column for 'Country' is
merely the last three letters of the game's 'Site' field.
This setup seems to be a defacto of sorts in PGN, though i'm not terribly
knowledgable about it.

Scid's Site Spellchecking tool does a reasonable job of adding these three
letters to the Site. eg
"Baku"    >> "Baku AZE" (505)
"Baltimore"    >> "Baltimore, MD USA" (1)
"Banja Luka"    >> "Banja Luka BIH" (18)
"Barcelona"    >> "Barcelona ESP" (83)
"Barcelona (Spain)"    >> "Barcelona ESP" (3)

Anyway, I have added this to doco ... but i'm wondering if we should
enforce this a little in the gamelist. A simple test i can think of , if
the 3rd last letter is not capitalized, don't display the country field.
Another option would be - if the fourth last letter is not a space.

Is 'Country' found/used anywhere else in ScidvsPC beside the gamelist. ?

Steve

[Scidvspc-users] Bug Report

[Jerome M. <jmo...@gm...>]

Hello,

When i click on the name of the player



*TEXT*
invalid command name ".playerInfoWin.menu.players"
invalid command name ".playerInfoWin.menu.players"
    while executing
"$w.menu.players delete 0 end"
    (procedure "playerInfo" line 119)
    invoked from within
"playerInfo GuestYXBD raise"
    (command bound to event)


*CONTEXT*
Scid vs. PC 4.19 (Mar 15, 2018)
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net

(C) Steven Atkinson (ste...@ya...) 2008-2018
(C) Pascal Georges 2006-2008
(C) Shane Hudson 1999-2004
(C) Gregor Cramer, Fulvio Benini and others.
Licenced under the GNU General Public License.
Command line is "/usr/local/bin/scid "
User directory is "/home/monscavoir/.scidvspc"
png image support is available.
Loaded options from "/home/monscavoir/.scidvspc/config/options.dat".
Using Tcl/Tk version: 8.6.5 (with Gregor's tk::text - No)
Linux operating system, version 4.13.0-37-generic
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=16.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=xenial
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS"
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="16.04.4 LTS (Xenial Xerus)"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 16.04.4 LTS"
VERSION_ID="16.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
VERSION_CODENAME=xenial
UBUNTU_CODENAME=xenial
LANG environment var is fr_FR.UTF-8
scidShareDir is /usr/local/share/scid
scidBasesDir is /usr/local/share/scid/bases
scidBooksDir is /usr/local/share/scid/books
True type fonts (PGN figurines) enabled.
User Pieces: no such directory /home/monscavoir/.scidvspc/pieces
User Textures: no such directory /home/monscavoir/.scidvspc/textures
Initializing Sound...
   Snack sound package found: Move speech enabled.
   Available output devices are: default plughw:0 plughw:1 plughw:2 plughw:3
   Succesfully set Snack output device to default
   Found 0 of 31 sound files in /home/monscavoir/scidvspc-code/sounds
Docking mode enabled.
Searching for player photos.
Correspondence Chess: correspondence.dat loaded.
http package 2.8.9 found
tDOM package 0.8.3 found
Checking for endgame tablebase files.
    Tablebases with up to 4 pieces were found.
ECO file "/usr/local/share/scid/data/scid.eco"  loaded: 10360 positions.
Spellcheck file "/usr/local/share/scid/spelling.ssp" loaded:
    221429 players, 11 events, 804 sites, 20 rounds.
Using default bases: /home/monscavoir/scid-base
Opening database: /home/monscavoir/scid-base
   Database "/home/monscavoir/scid-base" opened: 16776635 games.



-- 
Jerome Monscavoir
jmo...@gm...
06 07 90 89 57

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Network error

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

I don't know much about networking.
Maybe someone can adopt this code, or something similar in idea, into
fics.tcl

http://wiki.tcl.tk/12379

On Monday, March 19, 2018, Francois Paget <fra...@wa...> wrote:

> Good afternoon from France,
>
> I am new on this list, but I am a fervent scidvspc user…
>
>
>
> I have a problem, not directly connected with scidvspc, but perhaps some
> readers had to resolve it and will be able to help me.
>
> My computer is on Windows 8.1 Enterprise, with a 64bits processor.
>
> Frequently - *usually the week-end* - I am disconnected when I am playing
> chess on Internet (on freechess.org). At first I accused the scidvspc
> software (Receiving  a “Read error” windows containing the message :
> “Network error Fics will exit.”).
>
> Then I tested the server with the Jin client (jin.exe). Same result :
> numerous network disconnection on freechess.org *the week-end*. At this
> stage I accused the freechess server.
>
> But I tested some others Telnet chess servers. Same problem *the week-end*
> .
>
>
>
> Now I conclude the problem is on my side : my computer or rather my
> Internet access (French Orange Livebox).
>
> Is someone able to help me ? Do I have to modify some parameters somewhere
> ?
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Francois,
>

[Scidvspc-users] Network error

[Francois P. <fra...@wa...>]

Good afternoon from France,

I am new on this list, but I am a fervent scidvspc user.

 

I have a problem, not directly connected with scidvspc, but perhaps some
readers had to resolve it and will be able to help me.

My computer is on Windows 8.1 Enterprise, with a 64bits processor.

Frequently - usually the week-end - I am disconnected when I am playing
chess on Internet (on freechess.org). At first I accused the scidvspc
software (Receiving  a "Read error" windows containing the message :
"Network error Fics will exit.").

Then I tested the server with the Jin client (jin.exe). Same result :
numerous network disconnection on freechess.org the week-end. At this stage
I accused the freechess server.

But I tested some others Telnet chess servers. Same problem the week-end.

 

Now I conclude the problem is on my side : my computer or rather my Internet
access (French Orange Livebox).

Is someone able to help me ? Do I have to modify some parameters somewhere ?

 

Cheers,

Francois,

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Scid vs PC 4.19

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

Hi Steve,

how do you do? I cannot tell about news in my life, I'm still looking for a 
flat. In Germany wintertime is going over, the spring is coming slowly.

> Stockfish 9 plays a lot nicer with ScidvsPC...

What does this mean?

Have a good time,
Gregor


On Sunday 11 March 2018 12:53:18 Steve A wrote:
> Hi,
> We've made some release candidates for 4.19, so please test them.
>   http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html#toc3
> No really big new features. Stockfish 9 plays a lot nicer with ScidvsPC and
> has been included, and have also included Paul's nicest piece-set too. Here
> is the changelog,
> cheers, Steven
> 
> 4.19 (March 15, 2018)
> 
>     New 'Default Databases' feature (Options->Save Bases as Default)
>     CQL 5.2 search feature (Search->CQL). Thanks Lionel and CQL authors
>     General search can now match any (non-hidden) pre-game or final move
> Comment
>     Export Scid Flags feature
>     Big speed up for bulk Strip Comments/Variations feature. (Also make the
> 'Stop' button work)
>     Improvements to loading games at the correct position (resolve a
> conflict between the tree window and search results), and small Tree
> speed-up
>     Remove 'Magnetic' for Paul's chess pieces. New 'Ascii' chess pieces
> (thanks HGM), and 'Green' colour scheme
>     New Turkish translation (thanks Ali Sen)
> 
>     Right-clicking button bar changes, including right-click Window button
> shows Splash window
>     Some tree tweaks and doco updates, and tree Fast+Slow mode now doesn't
> break the win/lose graph
>     Tweak progress bar update frequencies (base export, game copy)
>     OS X has a faster build
>     New Windows build system from Oz
>     A new script, 'sc_filter_pgn', which filters multiple PGN files for
> games matching a certain position
>     FICS - Offers Graph is disabled while playing a game. Change the censor
> button a little, and control+censor censors person chatting to you
>     Escape key in main board cancels piece dragging/move
>     Input engine fixes (DGT board). Widget now resizes ok, and bitmaps
> display properly on OS X. Thanks to Davy De Roeck for debugging it on OS X
> 
>  Bug Fixes
>     Fixes regarding other language piece letters
>     Fix up showing the first gamelist/game in searches
>     Fix up the days of the months in the calender widget
>     Fix up window placeStockfish 9 plays a lot nicer with ScidvsPC and
has been included,ment on multi display desktops
>     Best games 'Reset Column titles' was broke
>     sc_game startPos segfaults if !HasNonStandardStart
> 
> On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:
> > Thanks Oz, it looks great :)
> > I'll let the users test out the 64 bit app when i announce it this
> > evening.
> > Stockfish 9 have finally fixed a few issues, and makes it much easier for
> > me to package it with the app.
> > 
> > Sorry for not looking at the warnings, but i'm too hopeless. Hopefully
> > people will tell us if they find bugs.
> > (I'm just wondering how that SDL2 bug survived for so long?) If i havent
> > mentioned it already -
> > I wasn't even sure i still had a windows OS till now. My main hard-disk no
> > longer boots for some reason, and i'm having to boot grub off my second
> > (ssd).. but my (illeg*l) win7 still chainloaded ok.
> > When it fails, it's gonna be hard for me to reinstall windows.
> > 
> > Steve
> > 
> > On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Ozkan Sezer <se...@gm...> wrote:
> >> On 3/10/18, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:
> >> > I think svn is ok to go Oz.
> >> > There's been a few changes to the lang/ files recently, so copy
> >> > 
> >> >   czech.tcl deutsch.tcl finnish.tcl francais.tcl greek.tcl hungary.tcl
> >> > 
> >> > italian.tcl nederlan.tcl norsk.tcl polish.tcl portbr.tcl port.tcl
> >> > russian.tcl serbian.tcl spanish.tcl swedish.tcl turkish.tcl
> >> > across to "lang"
> >> > 
> >> > Just unix2dos the README.{html,txt}
> >> > The scid.gui will be ~ 2M bigger because i recently included some fancy
> >> 
> >> new
> >> 
> >> > chess pieces.
> >> > And the scid.exe will be bigger of course, what with the CQL stuff, and
> >> 
> >> i
> >> 
> >> > think you're linking in the dll dependancies. Is it a hassle to use -O3
> >> 
> >> ?
> >> 
> >> > Just one change to spelling.ssp it looks like.
> >> > 
> >> > Oh yeah - stockfish 9 has some real improvements.
> >> > 
> >> > wget https://stockfish.s3.amazonaws.com/stockfish-9-win.zip
> >> > unzip stockfish-9-win.zip
> >> > cp stockfish-9-win/Windows/stockfish_9_x32.exe
> >> 
> >> [32bit]/bin/stockfish.exe
> >> 
> >> > cp stockfish-9-win/Windows/stockfish_9_x64.exe
> >> 
> >> [64bit]/bin//stockfish.exe
> >> 
> >> > I can't think of anything else.
> >> > 
> >> > Just upload them their final destination at SF, and i'll give them a
> >> 
> >> test.
> >> 
> >> > No hurry of course. I'm not sure if i'll get OS X done tomorrow.
> >> > Thanks
> >> 
> >> I did as you asked: Built with -O3, copied the new stockfish, updated
> >> the langs and READMEs, etc, and uploaded to sf, both w32 and w64.
> >> The warning log from the w64 build is attached in case you'll want to
> >> do something about them.
> >> 
> >> --
> >> O.S.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Scid vs PC 4.19

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

Hi,
We've made some release candidates for 4.19, so please test them.
  http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html#toc3
No really big new features. Stockfish 9 plays a lot nicer with ScidvsPC and
has been included, and have also included Paul's nicest piece-set too. Here
is the changelog,
cheers, Steven

4.19 (March 15, 2018)

    New 'Default Databases' feature (Options->Save Bases as Default)
    CQL 5.2 search feature (Search->CQL). Thanks Lionel and CQL authors
    General search can now match any (non-hidden) pre-game or final move
Comment
    Export Scid Flags feature
    Big speed up for bulk Strip Comments/Variations feature. (Also make the
'Stop' button work)
    Improvements to loading games at the correct position (resolve a
conflict between the tree window and search results), and small Tree
speed-up
    Remove 'Magnetic' for Paul's chess pieces. New 'Ascii' chess pieces
(thanks HGM), and 'Green' colour scheme
    New Turkish translation (thanks Ali Sen)

    Right-clicking button bar changes, including right-click Window button
shows Splash window
    Some tree tweaks and doco updates, and tree Fast+Slow mode now doesn't
break the win/lose graph
    Tweak progress bar update frequencies (base export, game copy)
    OS X has a faster build
    New Windows build system from Oz
    A new script, 'sc_filter_pgn', which filters multiple PGN files for
games matching a certain position
    FICS - Offers Graph is disabled while playing a game. Change the censor
button a little, and control+censor censors person chatting to you
    Escape key in main board cancels piece dragging/move
    Input engine fixes (DGT board). Widget now resizes ok, and bitmaps
display properly on OS X. Thanks to Davy De Roeck for debugging it on OS X

 Bug Fixes
    Fixes regarding other language piece letters
    Fix up showing the first gamelist/game in searches
    Fix up the days of the months in the calender widget
    Fix up window placement on multi display desktops
    Best games 'Reset Column titles' was broke
    sc_game startPos segfaults if !HasNonStandardStart

On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 10:46 AM, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:

> Thanks Oz, it looks great :)
> I'll let the users test out the 64 bit app when i announce it this evening.
> Stockfish 9 have finally fixed a few issues, and makes it much easier for
> me to package it with the app.
>
> Sorry for not looking at the warnings, but i'm too hopeless. Hopefully
> people will tell us if they find bugs.
> (I'm just wondering how that SDL2 bug survived for so long?) If i havent
> mentioned it already -
> I wasn't even sure i still had a windows OS till now. My main hard-disk no
> longer boots for some reason, and i'm having to boot grub off my second
> (ssd).. but my (illeg*l) win7 still chainloaded ok.
> When it fails, it's gonna be hard for me to reinstall windows.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On Sat, Mar 10, 2018 at 8:22 PM, Ozkan Sezer <se...@gm...> wrote:
>
>> On 3/10/18, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:
>> > I think svn is ok to go Oz.
>> > There's been a few changes to the lang/ files recently, so copy
>> >   czech.tcl deutsch.tcl finnish.tcl francais.tcl greek.tcl hungary.tcl
>> > italian.tcl nederlan.tcl norsk.tcl polish.tcl portbr.tcl port.tcl
>> > russian.tcl serbian.tcl spanish.tcl swedish.tcl turkish.tcl
>> > across to "lang"
>> >
>> > Just unix2dos the README.{html,txt}
>> > The scid.gui will be ~ 2M bigger because i recently included some fancy
>> new
>> > chess pieces.
>> > And the scid.exe will be bigger of course, what with the CQL stuff, and
>> i
>> > think you're linking in the dll dependancies. Is it a hassle to use -O3
>> ?
>> > Just one change to spelling.ssp it looks like.
>> >
>> > Oh yeah - stockfish 9 has some real improvements.
>> >
>> > wget https://stockfish.s3.amazonaws.com/stockfish-9-win.zip
>> > unzip stockfish-9-win.zip
>> > cp stockfish-9-win/Windows/stockfish_9_x32.exe
>> [32bit]/bin/stockfish.exe
>> > cp stockfish-9-win/Windows/stockfish_9_x64.exe
>> [64bit]/bin//stockfish.exe
>> >
>> > I can't think of anything else.
>> >
>> > Just upload them their final destination at SF, and i'll give them a
>> test.
>> > No hurry of course. I'm not sure if i'll get OS X done tomorrow.
>> > Thanks
>>
>> I did as you asked: Built with -O3, copied the new stockfish, updated
>> the langs and READMEs, etc, and uploaded to sf, both w32 and w64.
>> The warning log from the w64 build is attached in case you'll want to
>> do something about them.
>>
>> --
>> O.S.
>>
>
>

Re: [Scidvspc-users] New windows beta (including CQL search)

[Adrian P. <ape...@gm...>]

Thank you so much for everything, but especially the "Default Databases" 
feature - that one's been on my wishlist for years :)

-- 
                   Adrian

[Scidvspc-users] New windows beta (including CQL search)

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

Hi,
Lionel has been implementing the CQL (Chess Query Language) search feature
some more - CQL 5.2 is now gold - and Oz has made up some windows betas.

32bit:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows-beta/Scid%20vs%20PC-4.19-r2815.exe/download

64 bit:
https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows-beta/Scid%20vs%20PC-4.19-r2815.x64.exe/download

This feature is pretty heavy to use (there are a few examples in the help
file), but people may also be interested in the other minor changes
included (upto subversion rev 2815).
There are not many of these. A new 'Ascii' chess piece set and green colour
scheme :)
and a 'default/autload databases' feature.

We are using a new windows build system, and hopefully there's no
regressions.
Maybe our Windows big DB speed loading has changed ? Sorry, but i havent
tested it.

So thanks to Lionel, Oz and the CQL authors, who have been working with
Lionel i think.

Below is a changelog since 4.18.1 (though this beta still installs as 4.18)
Maybe in a month or two, 4.19 will be released.

cheers, Steve

CHANGES
Fix up the days of the months in the calender widget.

Fics: Change censor button a little, and Control-Censor censors person
chatting to you.
Fix up window placement on milti display desktops.

Input engine fixes (DGT board). Widget now resizes ok, and bitmaps display
properly on OS X. Thanks to Davy De Roeck for debugging it on OS X. Destroy
signal handled a little differently, and maybe a minor memory leak fix too
(unrelated, in bitmaps.tcl).

New search feature. General search can now match any (non-hidden) pre-game
or final move comment.

Export Scid Flags feature.

Opening table filter operations didn't update the gamelist. (Previously
stats::Refresh did a gamelist refresh).

Some tree tweaks/doco updates. Mostly non-functional, except the Fast+Slow
mode now doesn't break the win/lose graph.

Streamline widget refresh a little

Bugfix: Best games 'Reset Column titles' was broke.

Re games loading at a certain position -= there is a conflict between the
tree window and search results.
What position do we load at ?  Now we prioritize the search result, and if
no search result, load ply of the tree/current position.
Small associared speed bump.

CQl 5.2 search feature (Search ->CQL). Thanks Lionel and CQL team.

OS X has -O3 build instead of (mistakenly) no optimisation.

Tweak progress bar update frequencies (base export, cql search, game copy).

New Windows build system from Oz. (todo - test speed)

New Ascii pieces (Thanks HGM), and Green colour scheme (replaces red).


Big speed up for (bulk) Strip Comments/Variations feature. Also make the
'Stop' button work.

fix: sc_game startPos segfaults if !HasNonStandardStart

Clean up scripts a little, add a new script sc_filter_pgn

New 'Default Databases' feature (Options->Save Bases as Default)

Fix up showing the first gamelist/game in searches.

Some minor gamelist fixes when emptying clipbase/closing bases. (resets
clipbase to read-write, and reset title arrows)

FICS: Offers Graph disabled while playing a game

Extend game load key bindings to gamelist treeview widget.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] enabling PGN figurines and default base (on scidvsmac)

[Chris L. <ch...@ch...>]

On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 1:39 AM, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:
>
>
> On Thu, Jan 11, 2018 at 10:50 AM, Chris Lott <ch...@ch...> wrote:
>>
>> 1.How can I enable PGN figurines? I can't seem to find the
>> ScidChessBerin.ttf mentioned in the documentation.
>>
>> 1a. Tangentially related: what are the ScidChessStandard and
>> ScidChessTraveller .ttf and .sfd files in "support files" for?
>
> Install the font ScidChessStandard.ttf to enable chess figurines.

I have the fonts installed and showing properly in FontBook. I've
restarted Scid (and the machine). But I am still seeing the warning in
red that PGN figurines are disabled. Is there something else I need to
do?

>> 2. How can I set a default database on OSX with Scidvsmac? The docs
>> mention command line flags, but I'm unclear how to do that on Mac.
>
> I think i have a simple implementation in my head, and will make a "Default
> Databses(s)" feature shortly. The crux is: we will only open default bases
> if no command line args/options are given.

That would be awesome!

c

[Scidvspc-users] Replace one move without discarding subsequent moves

[Morten S. <mor...@gm...>]

I always enter my OTB games into SvP, and often I even enter a lot of games
by other players in the club. Sometimes I make errors during the process;
Maybe I move the wrong piece, maybe I move it to the wrong square, I make a
mouseslip, or maybe a score sheet is incorrect or just bloody hard to read
so I need to make educated guesses as to what the player played. But for
whatever reason, I make the wrong move in SvP, and I do not discover it
until further into the game, when move 40 is not legal on the board because
I made some stupid mistake on move 15. In these cases I need to out why
move 40 is not legal, and backtrack until I find out where I made a
mistake. So far so good.

But when I figure out where I went wrong, and I correct the move, all
subsequent moves are then lost. Would it be possible to have an option in
SvP that allows you to replace that single move, but still keep all
subsequent moves? Providing the remaining moves are still legal, of course.

My current process in these cases is to export the incorrect game as PGN,
open it in Notepad, correct the offending move, and then import the
corrected PGN back into SCID. Or, just discard the moves and enter them all
again, depending on how many moves I need to redo.

-- 
-- Mvh/br Morten