scidvspc-users

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Tactics vs Score Graph

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

In case anyone hasn't used this (kind-of-rough) training feature, it is
Play->Training->Find Best Move, and has a small help entry under 'F'.
I've attached a tiny two game base with three 'exercises' in them.

I have fixed the bug, cheers. The problem was that we are now placing
scores at the start of the comment, so all we have to do is search for
the magic marker (****D %f->%f) at *any place* in the comment.

S.

On Sat, Feb 14, 2015 at 3:11 AM, Benigno Hernández <sn...@ya...> wrote:
> Hi,
> Currently incompatible the following characteristics: tactical exercises and
> annotation scores.
> If I make the annotation of a game with tactical exercises marking and add
> scores of the position on every play, even if they are marked tactical
> exercises, there is none.
> I think it's fixable search to find these tactical exercises while this
> annotated assessment of each play.
>
> forgive my translation
>
> Thanks
>
> Benigno Hernández

[Scidvspc-users] Tactics vs Score Graph

[Benigno H. <sn...@ya...>]

Hi,Currently incompatible the following characteristics: tactical exercises and annotation scores.If I make the annotation of a game with tactical exercises marking and add scores of the position on every play, even if they are marked tactical exercises, there is none.
 I think it's fixable search to find these tactical exercises while this annotated assessment of each play.
forgive my translation
Thanks
Benigno Hernández

[Scidvspc-users] Curiosity in ECO file

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

I've detected a curiosity in the ECO file of Scid:

	1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5				will be assigned to E10
	1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5		will be assigned to A60
	1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5 b5	will be assigned to E10

This is not looking logical. Does anybody have an explanation for
this? A line like "1.d4 Nf6 2.c4 e6 3.Nf3 c5 4.d5 a6" will be assigned
to A60, and this is logical. Why this exception for 4...b5?

Cheers,
Gregor

[Scidvspc-users] Latex Skak Formatting

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

Hi Steve,

It seems that using Skak to export games for print isn't following its 
options. For instance, I selected 'no' for "Column Style" but it 
formatted as column anyway:



By the way, it was pure hell trying to get skak to work on my system. I 
have Texmaker running under Linux Mint 17 KDE. I still had to install 
not only the standard texlive-games package but manually a dozen or so 
more, such as lambda.sty pgfutil-common.tex and more!

I really don't see the improvement over Chess12.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Possible bug: new variation for existing move

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

Ok. I have removed this confusing behaviour, and implemented the
proper solution; When clicking on the large "Add Variation" button at
the end of a game/var, the last move is automatically duplicated.

S.

On Thu, Jan 22, 2015 at 1:19 AM, Ralph Möritz <ral...@ou...> wrote:
> I see. Well at least now I know what's going on. Thanks.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve A [mailto:ste...@gm...]
> Sent: 21 January 2015 03:47 PM
> To: Ralph Möritz; scidvspc-users
> Subject: Re: [Scidvspc-users] Possible bug: new variation for existing move
>
> This behaviour is only for the last move of a game, as an easy way to add a variation. (Adding a var at any other time requires only clicking the addvar button, but adding a var at the end of game requires duplicating the last move - due to a nuance of the pgn
> standard)
>
> But yes, it is confusing.
>
> S.
>
> On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Ralph Möritz <ral...@ou...> wrote:
>> Hi Steve,
>>
>>
>>
>> in the x64 version of 4.13 I can consistently reproduce the following:
>>
>>
>>
>> 1.       Make sure you have a game with a few moves already played.
>>
>> 2.       Click on any move in the PGN window except for the last one.
>>
>> 3.       Using your mouse, make the next move in the game, i.e. move the
>> piece to be moved to where the next move says it should go.
>>
>> 4.       Observe that a new variation has been added.
>>
>>
>>
>> Maybe this is intended behaviour but it seems unintuitive because I
>> don’t expect a new variation to be added when the move already exists
>> in the game record. This catches me all the time and just feels like a bug.
>>
>>
>>
>> I’ve uploaded a short video that shows the problem, in case my
>> description is confusing: http://youtu.be/YzLnNBYRiBE
>>
>>
>>
>> Cheers,
>>
>> Ralph
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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[Scidvspc-users] wish list

[<nb...@wi...>]

First, thank you for a great interface. In the linux world I can't even 
think of anything that comes close. Haven't used it under Windows, but 
if the GUI is like the linux version then it will displace my current 
favorite BabasChess.

Having just sung my praises there's a couple of wish list items I'd like 
to log:

1. PGN is treated read-only. Not sure why, but this has unfortunate 
consequences. To strip comments for example one has to import the PGN 
into a SCID native (and I don't know what this format buys us) db, do 
the work and then export to PGN. PGN is relatively simple text. Why not 
operate on it directly and cut out the middle man?
2. Maybe there's a way, but I haven't found how to display engine 
evaluations during user vs. engine blitz games. Of course the 
evaluations are visible in a window during analysis mode, but it would 
be nice to see them during blitz as well.

Of course these are "wish list" items so no urgency. I'd offer to pitch 
in, but I'm not a Tcl/Tk guy. If the project was in a more widely used 
implementation language like C++, Java, or C# I might have been able to 
help.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Possible bug: new variation for existing move

[Ralph M. <ral...@ou...>]

I see. Well at least now I know what's going on. Thanks.

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve A [mailto:ste...@gm...] 
Sent: 21 January 2015 03:47 PM
To: Ralph Möritz; scidvspc-users
Subject: Re: [Scidvspc-users] Possible bug: new variation for existing move

This behaviour is only for the last move of a game, as an easy way to add a variation. (Adding a var at any other time requires only clicking the addvar button, but adding a var at the end of game requires duplicating the last move - due to a nuance of the pgn
standard)

But yes, it is confusing.

S.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Ralph Möritz <ral...@ou...> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
>
>
> in the x64 version of 4.13 I can consistently reproduce the following:
>
>
>
> 1.       Make sure you have a game with a few moves already played.
>
> 2.       Click on any move in the PGN window except for the last one.
>
> 3.       Using your mouse, make the next move in the game, i.e. move the
> piece to be moved to where the next move says it should go.
>
> 4.       Observe that a new variation has been added.
>
>
>
> Maybe this is intended behaviour but it seems unintuitive because I 
> don’t expect a new variation to be added when the move already exists 
> in the game record. This catches me all the time and just feels like a bug.
>
>
>
> I’ve uploaded a short video that shows the problem, in case my 
> description is confusing: http://youtu.be/YzLnNBYRiBE
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ralph
>
>
>
>
>
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Possible bug: new variation for existing move

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

This behaviour is only for the last move of a game, as an easy way to
add a variation. (Adding a var at any other time requires only
clicking the addvar button, but adding a var at the end of game
requires duplicating the last move - due to a nuance of the pgn
standard)

But yes, it is confusing.

S.

On Wed, Jan 21, 2015 at 11:27 PM, Ralph Möritz <ral...@ou...> wrote:
> Hi Steve,
>
>
>
> in the x64 version of 4.13 I can consistently reproduce the following:
>
>
>
> 1.       Make sure you have a game with a few moves already played.
>
> 2.       Click on any move in the PGN window except for the last one.
>
> 3.       Using your mouse, make the next move in the game, i.e. move the
> piece to be moved to where the next move says it should go.
>
> 4.       Observe that a new variation has been added.
>
>
>
> Maybe this is intended behaviour but it seems unintuitive because I don’t
> expect a new variation to be added when the move already exists in the game
> record. This catches me all the time and just feels like a bug.
>
>
>
> I’ve uploaded a short video that shows the problem, in case my description
> is confusing: http://youtu.be/YzLnNBYRiBE
>
>
>
> Cheers,
>
> Ralph
>
>
>
>
>
>
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[Scidvspc-users] Possible bug: new variation for existing move

[Ralph M. <ral...@ou...>]

Hi Steve,

 

in the x64 version of 4.13 I can consistently reproduce the following:

 

1.       Make sure you have a game with a few moves already played.

2.       Click on any move in the PGN window except for the last one.

3.       Using your mouse, make the next move in the game, i.e. move the
piece to be moved to where the next move says it should go.

4.       Observe that a new variation has been added.

 

Maybe this is intended behaviour but it seems unintuitive because I don’t
expect a new variation to be added when the move already exists in the game
record. This catches me all the time and just feels like a bug.

 

I’ve uploaded a short video that shows the problem, in case my description
is confusing: http://youtu.be/YzLnNBYRiBE

 

Cheers,

Ralph

 

 

[Scidvspc-users] Re FICS suggestions

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

> 1. when you click offers graph does not seem an obvious way to go back
> to the 'menu block' that was there before you display offers graph.

Ok - there is now a little close button in the offers window.

(Also, FICS now indicates which is your "primary" observed game by
showing the game number in bold.)

These changes are in subversion.

> 2. Can you configure not to show computer robots in offers

Hmmm - maybe i'll add an option for this.

> 3. How do I 'talk' to an opponent...they often say gg and I'm not
> clear if I hit 'send' with text in box it goes to them.

Please try to read help files before posting. %<
The fics command is "say gg". Then press Enter or hit the send button.

> 4. When I make the screen bigger on a Ubuntu 14.10 desktop, the picese
> slightly pixelate (blurr). Is there a better set set of pieces to use.

There are some extra pieces here and here
http://gorgonian.weebly.com/scid-vs-pc.html
http://www.edcollins.com/chess/scidvspc/downloads.htm
I believe FritzSWS has some high resolution pieces,
and also see this forum
http://www.chess.com/forum/view/general/scid-vs-pc?page=21

I should make permanent links to these.

> 5. I have droidchess on my andriod phone...is it possible to send
> chess games into scid-vs-pc from this...

Use the "smoves" command from scidvspc to get recently played games
uploaded to your computer. I think this is what you want

> Lastly, FANTASTIC program...happy to contribute if I can help.

thanks, Steven

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Spellchecking abbreviation and capitalisation

[David H. <da...@ne...>]

Not sure if my post of this a few days ago got sent...so resending.

Thx dave

I'm using scid vs ps to play on FICS ...

1. when you click offers graph does not seem an obvious way to go back
to the 'menu block' that was there before you display offers graph.

2. Can you configure not to show computer robots in offers

3. How do I 'talk' to an opponent...they often say gg and I'm not
clear if I hit 'send' with text in box it goes to them.

4. When I make the screen bigger on a Ubuntu 14.10 desktop, the picese
slightly pixelate (blurr). Is there a better set set of pieces to use.

5. I have droidchess on my andriod phone...is it possible to send
chess games into scid-vs-pc from this...or do you recommend another
chess andriod app...there are loads of them ! I.E I want to record my
proper chess games in scid-vs-pc and want the best way to add them if
I type them into phone at local chess club after match.

Lastly, FANTASTIC program...happy to contribute if I can help.

Thank you,
Dave

On 11 January 2015 at 00:21, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:
> I'm looking at improving the spell check feature ... but it is not trivial.
>
> The spelling.ssp file handles cases like this
> "Aronian, L"    >> "Aronian, Levon" (1)  1982.??.??--
> "Aronian, L."    >> "Aronian, Levon" (1)  1982.??.??--
> basically because Lev is the only "L" Aronian.
> But because Vishy is not the only "V" Anand, spelling.ssp does
> not have have any rule to fix "Anand, V" or "Anand, V." (only diff is
> a trailing ".")
>
> But i'm thinking we should probably standardise on *one* of these,
> and include a correction when we run the Spellchecker.
> (ie convert "Anand, V" to "Anand, V." or vice a versa)
>
> So should we use a period or not ?
> The spelling.ssp currently avoids superfluous periods
> (eg "Fischer R. J."    >> "Fischer, Robert J")
> but i have a preference to include them.
> This is a bit of a dilemma.
>
> And we also have the case of missing commans to consider
> (eg "Anand V"). Can we safely convert all "name singleletter" playernames
> eg "Surname A" to "Surname, A" (or "Surname, A.")
>
> Some pgn sources also uppercase the surname,
> but i think we can safely convert all uppercase player names
> to capitalised names.
>
> Steven
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Board Screenshot Problem

[Bennett A. J. <ben...@gm...>]

I fixed my issue by upgrading Tcl and Tk to versions from versions 8.6.1 
to 8.6.3, then re-compiling and re-installing Scid vs. PC.

Bennett
El 15/01/15 a las 07:06, Bennett A. Joseph escribió:
> Greetings,
>
> When I take a board screenshot (Tools -> Board Screenshot) the result 
> is a faded image with pale checkered squares all over - I attached an 
> example.
>
> It looks to me like it could be a problem with transparency.  I 
> thought I might be missing an image library necessary for this feature 
> to work but I don't know which that would be.
>
> I'm using Slackware64 Linux and the latest Scid vs. PC checked out 
> from SVN.  My tcl and tk versions are 8.6.1.  tkImg is the latest 
> version - 1.4.2.
>
> Any help resolving this issue would be appreciated!
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bennett

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Spellchecking abbreviation and capitalisation

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

> Scid is not stripping trailing periods. It is the users choice.

This is what I mean,  for instance if I open the spellchecker it gives
the following :

    "Antipov, Mikhail Al." >> "Antipov, Mikhail Al" 

because all the names in spelling.ssp are stripped. If you have
thousands of names in the database the user normally will accept
without editing. Thus stripping the periods is the "default" in Scid.

> Even FIDE have trouble with christian/surnames
> http://ratings.fide.com/card.phtml?event=25093355
> There is no comma in the name - impossible to know christian/surname

Yes, these names cannot be recovered automatically, the database
of FIDE is a mess, even the player database of ChessBase suffers from
the slovenliness of FIDE.

I think that it is important to identify a player even if the name will be
spelled differently, e.g. in Germany Russian names will be spelled
(transliterated) differently than in English. It would be great if the
name can be combined with an unique ID. An almost unique identification
exists, namely the FIDE ID, but FIDE is reusing deleted ID's, so it is not
really unique, and FIDE does not provide ID's for ancient players. It would
be nice if a unique ID even for ancient players exists. In this way a user may
enter "Tschechower, Witali" (German transliteration), combined with any
unique ID XXXXXXX, and an English user can identify this player as "Chekhover,
Vitaly" (English transliteration), because of the unique ID XXXXXXX (the
application will do the mapping, of course). IMO such an unique ID is the only
way to solve the spelling problem.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Spellchecking abbreviation and capitalisation

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

> I'm looking at improving the spell check feature ... but it is not trivial.

This name spelling thing is a crux. In Scidb I'm stripping the periods,
because Scid and ChessBase are doing this. I cannot say that I'm
happy with this, but I don't know whether this should be changed.

IMO the most important point is that Scid, Scid vs PC and Scidb
should handle name spelling in a similar way.

Cheers,
Gregor

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Spellchecking abbreviation and capitalisation

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

This patch Capitalises known names (eg "ARONIAN, L" -> "Aronian, L")
but not unknown names (eg "ANAND, V.")

Handling these and errant punctuation, needs a more comprehensive
approach. They should probably still be done in the name checker, but
it proabbly needs bigger changes (in the GUI and source) to accomodate
unknown names.

S.

[Scidvspc-users] Spellchecking abbreviation and capitalisation

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

I'm looking at improving the spell check feature ... but it is not trivial.

The spelling.ssp file handles cases like this
"Aronian, L"    >> "Aronian, Levon" (1)  1982.??.??--
"Aronian, L."    >> "Aronian, Levon" (1)  1982.??.??--
basically because Lev is the only "L" Aronian.
But because Vishy is not the only "V" Anand, spelling.ssp does
not have have any rule to fix "Anand, V" or "Anand, V." (only diff is
a trailing ".")

But i'm thinking we should probably standardise on *one* of these,
and include a correction when we run the Spellchecker.
(ie convert "Anand, V" to "Anand, V." or vice a versa)

So should we use a period or not ?
The spelling.ssp currently avoids superfluous periods
(eg "Fischer R. J."    >> "Fischer, Robert J")
but i have a preference to include them.
This is a bit of a dilemma.

And we also have the case of missing commans to consider
(eg "Anand V"). Can we safely convert all "name singleletter" playernames
eg "Surname A" to "Surname, A" (or "Surname, A.")

Some pgn sources also uppercase the surname,
but i think we can safely convert all uppercase player names
to capitalised names.

Steven

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Newbie....

[Peter B. <pet...@ic...>]

Hello David,
If I understood it right you try to save a pgn game... 
Thats in deed a little bit more complicated.
But using the si4 format all your problems will fly away

Kind regards
 Peter


> Am 13.12.2014 um 00:55 schrieb David Herring <da...@ne...>:
> 
> Thank you both for the help.
> 
> 1. Have compiled a local copy using the details you provided at:-
> http://www.linuxx.eu/2012/11/scid-vs-pc-installation-guide-ubuntu.html
> 
> That was easy - details below.
> 
> 2. Saving games still is slightly confusing me, if you start scidvspc
> and enter some moves, then you are effectively 'saving' a game on the
> clipboard - to move to a database say DavesChessGames - I had to Edit
> -> Copy pgn, then Edit -> paste pgn. I think this will get easier as I
> get used to using scidvspc, I think I need to have it start with
> DavesChessGames open, and then work from there.
> 
> Essentially after two things from scidvspc, firstly a place to add all
> the chess games I have played over last few years. Then later, the
> possibility to share these with fellow club members.
> 
> Again, thanks for the help,
> Dave
> 
> Scid vs. PC
> Scid vs. PC 4.13 (Oct 25, 2014).
> http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net
> 
> (C) Steven Atkinson (ste...@ya...) 2008-2014
> (C) Pascal Georges 2006-2008
> (C) Shane Hudson 1999-2004
> (C) Fulvio Benini, Gregor Cramer and others.
> Licenced under the GNU General Public License.
> 
> Command line is "/usr/local/bin/scid "
> User directory is "/home/dave/.scidvspc"
> png image support is available.
> Loaded options from "/home/dave/.scidvspc/config/options.dat".
> Using Tcl/Tk version: 8.6.1
> Linux operating system, version 3.13.0-43-generic
> NAME="Ubuntu"
> VERSION="14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
> ID=ubuntu
> ID_LIKE=debian
> PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS"
> VERSION_ID="14.04"
> HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
> SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
> BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
> DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
> DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
> DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
> DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS"
> LANG environment var is en_GB.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 Textures: no such directory /home/dave/.scidvspc/textures
> Initializing Sound...
>   Snack sound package found: Move speech enabled.
>   Available output devices are: default plughw:0 plughw:1
>   Succesfully set Snack output device to default
>   Found 0 of 31 sound files in
> Docking mode enabled.
> Searching for player photos.
> Unable to load Correspondence options file correspondence.dat
> http package 2.8.7 found
> tDOM package 0.8.3 found
> Checking for endgame tablebase files.
>    No tablebases were found.
> ECO file "/usr/local/share/scid/data/scid.eco"  loaded: 10360 positions.
> Spellcheck file "/usr/local/share/scid/spelling.ssp" loaded:
>    185479 players, 11 events, 804 sites, 20 rounds.
> 
> On 12 December 2014 at 03:13, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras
> <je...@op...> wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On 12/12/2014 03:03 AM, David Herring wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>> 
>>> Just started using Scid vs PC - impressive program, so firstly thank
>>> you to all who made this.
>>> 
>>> Using the Scid vs. PC 4.13 (Oct 25, 2014) On Ubuntu using Wine to run
>>> windows binary.
>>> 
>>> Two Questions:-
>>> 
>>> 1. Should I run / compile a native Linux binary ? Or is there no real
>>> advantage to do so.
>> Better compile it ...
>> it's very easy take an look on
>> http://www.linuxx.eu/2012/11/scid-vs-pc-installation-guide-ubuntu.html
>> 
>> According to your logic , what do you want to run Firefox/Chrome via
>> wine or native ? Oh in firefox you have to install flash plugin to work
>> under wine and native  .. the same is if you use an engine .. you have
>> to install the .exe  .. But in Gnu/Linux ecosystem if there's a native
>> solution try alternative  .. So if you use archiver managemer , u will
>> you install the winrar or with a simple command you will install p7zip
>> for file-roller  ?
>>> 
>>> 2. I'm confused as to how to save games I add in to a MyGames
>>> database. Do I have to use Game manu...and add game - just seems a
>>> little obscure and to be honest I'm not actually seeing the game in
>>> the database, but that is probabley user error.
>> 
>> Sorry dunno about that
>> 
>>> 
>>> Have read what guides I can find, so if there is something I should
>>> read to get started please let me know.
>>> 
>>> Thanks again to all,
>>> Dave
> 
> 
> 
> -- 
> David Herring
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Newbie....

[David H. <da...@ne...>]

Thank you both for the help.

1. Have compiled a local copy using the details you provided at:-
http://www.linuxx.eu/2012/11/scid-vs-pc-installation-guide-ubuntu.html

That was easy - details below.

2. Saving games still is slightly confusing me, if you start scidvspc
and enter some moves, then you are effectively 'saving' a game on the
clipboard - to move to a database say DavesChessGames - I had to Edit
-> Copy pgn, then Edit -> paste pgn. I think this will get easier as I
get used to using scidvspc, I think I need to have it start with
DavesChessGames open, and then work from there.

Essentially after two things from scidvspc, firstly a place to add all
the chess games I have played over last few years. Then later, the
possibility to share these with fellow club members.

Again, thanks for the help,
Dave

Scid vs. PC
Scid vs. PC 4.13 (Oct 25, 2014).
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net

(C) Steven Atkinson (ste...@ya...) 2008-2014
(C) Pascal Georges 2006-2008
(C) Shane Hudson 1999-2004
(C) Fulvio Benini, Gregor Cramer and others.
Licenced under the GNU General Public License.

Command line is "/usr/local/bin/scid "
User directory is "/home/dave/.scidvspc"
png image support is available.
Loaded options from "/home/dave/.scidvspc/config/options.dat".
Using Tcl/Tk version: 8.6.1
Linux operating system, version 3.13.0-43-generic
NAME="Ubuntu"
VERSION="14.04.1 LTS, Trusty Tahr"
ID=ubuntu
ID_LIKE=debian
PRETTY_NAME="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS"
VERSION_ID="14.04"
HOME_URL="http://www.ubuntu.com/"
SUPPORT_URL="http://help.ubuntu.com/"
BUG_REPORT_URL="http://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/"
DISTRIB_ID=Ubuntu
DISTRIB_RELEASE=14.04
DISTRIB_CODENAME=trusty
DISTRIB_DESCRIPTION="Ubuntu 14.04.1 LTS"
LANG environment var is en_GB.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 Textures: no such directory /home/dave/.scidvspc/textures
Initializing Sound...
   Snack sound package found: Move speech enabled.
   Available output devices are: default plughw:0 plughw:1
   Succesfully set Snack output device to default
   Found 0 of 31 sound files in
Docking mode enabled.
Searching for player photos.
Unable to load Correspondence options file correspondence.dat
http package 2.8.7 found
tDOM package 0.8.3 found
Checking for endgame tablebase files.
    No tablebases were found.
ECO file "/usr/local/share/scid/data/scid.eco"  loaded: 10360 positions.
Spellcheck file "/usr/local/share/scid/spelling.ssp" loaded:
    185479 players, 11 events, 804 sites, 20 rounds.

On 12 December 2014 at 03:13, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras
<je...@op...> wrote:
>
>
> On 12/12/2014 03:03 AM, David Herring wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> Just started using Scid vs PC - impressive program, so firstly thank
>> you to all who made this.
>>
>> Using the Scid vs. PC 4.13 (Oct 25, 2014) On Ubuntu using Wine to run
>> windows binary.
>>
>> Two Questions:-
>>
>> 1. Should I run / compile a native Linux binary ? Or is there no real
>> advantage to do so.
> Better compile it ...
> it's very easy take an look on
> http://www.linuxx.eu/2012/11/scid-vs-pc-installation-guide-ubuntu.html
>
> According to your logic , what do you want to run Firefox/Chrome via
> wine or native ? Oh in firefox you have to install flash plugin to work
> under wine and native  .. the same is if you use an engine .. you have
> to install the .exe  .. But in Gnu/Linux ecosystem if there's a native
> solution try alternative  .. So if you use archiver managemer , u will
> you install the winrar or with a simple command you will install p7zip
> for file-roller  ?
>>
>> 2. I'm confused as to how to save games I add in to a MyGames
>> database. Do I have to use Game manu...and add game - just seems a
>> little obscure and to be honest I'm not actually seeing the game in
>> the database, but that is probabley user error.
>
> Sorry dunno about that
>
>>
>> Have read what guides I can find, so if there is something I should
>> read to get started please let me know.
>>
>> Thanks again to all,
>> Dave
>>
>>



-- 
David Herring

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Newbie....

[Klearchos-Angelos G. <je...@op...>]

On 12/12/2014 03:03 AM, David Herring wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Just started using Scid vs PC - impressive program, so firstly thank
> you to all who made this.
> 
> Using the Scid vs. PC 4.13 (Oct 25, 2014) On Ubuntu using Wine to run
> windows binary.
> 
> Two Questions:-
> 
> 1. Should I run / compile a native Linux binary ? Or is there no real
> advantage to do so.
Better compile it ...
it's very easy take an look on
http://www.linuxx.eu/2012/11/scid-vs-pc-installation-guide-ubuntu.html

According to your logic , what do you want to run Firefox/Chrome via
wine or native ? Oh in firefox you have to install flash plugin to work
under wine and native  .. the same is if you use an engine .. you have
to install the .exe  .. But in Gnu/Linux ecosystem if there's a native
solution try alternative  .. So if you use archiver managemer , u will
you install the winrar or with a simple command you will install p7zip
for file-roller  ?
> 
> 2. I'm confused as to how to save games I add in to a MyGames
> database. Do I have to use Game manu...and add game - just seems a
> little obscure and to be honest I'm not actually seeing the game in
> the database, but that is probabley user error.

Sorry dunno about that

> 
> Have read what guides I can find, so if there is something I should
> read to get started please let me know.
> 
> Thanks again to all,
> Dave
> 
> 

[Scidvspc-users] Newbie....

[David H. <da...@ne...>]

Hi,

Just started using Scid vs PC - impressive program, so firstly thank
you to all who made this.

Using the Scid vs. PC 4.13 (Oct 25, 2014) On Ubuntu using Wine to run
windows binary.

Two Questions:-

1. Should I run / compile a native Linux binary ? Or is there no real
advantage to do so.

2. I'm confused as to how to save games I add in to a MyGames
database. Do I have to use Game manu...and add game - just seems a
little obscure and to be honest I'm not actually seeing the game in
the database, but that is probabley user error.

Have read what guides I can find, so if there is something I should
read to get started please let me know.

Thanks again to all,
Dave


-- 
David Herring

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Little update

[Igor S. M. <jos...@gm...>]

Steve A <ste...@gm...> writes:

> Just a short Changelog for recent subversion changes, some of which
> could do with testing.

thanks!


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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Little update

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

> Scid is well over ten years old, but it finally has basic piece
> dragging in the Board Setup window (Edit->Setup Board)!

Fine. I have a little suggestion: when dropping a piece outside of the board 
it should be removed. I've implemented this in Scidb, this is a good 
alternative to remove pieces from the board.

Cheers,
Gregor

[Scidvspc-users] Little update

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

Just a short Changelog for recent subversion changes, some of which
could do with testing.

Scid is well over ten years old, but it finally has basic piece
dragging in the Board Setup window (Edit->Setup Board)!

- Steven

Changes
------------
Set filter to deleted games prior to compacting game file.

Allow dragging pieces in Board Setup window.

Some changes to the player info window in preparation for a dictionary widget.

Make the Computer Tournament window a bit smaller. NB.
analysis(logEngines) is/was unused - it is now analysis(logMax).

Remove the errant rounding up of +10 to +11 in score graph y-axis, and
add the global background colour to graphs

Automatically exit trial mode when changing bases/file-opens... though
i dont know if many people use Trial-mode much.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Binary for Scid Vs PC on Debian derivatives

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

Yes, it'd be great to have packages for the bigger Linux distros.
Maybe someone will do it. I only run an outdated Fedora, and packaging
is not too interesting to me.

This freedesktop patch/directory is probably useful.
I tested it a half year ago, but it should still work.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/support%20files/freedesktop.org.tgz/download

Anyway, I will add your [2] to my documentation.

regards, Steven

On Mon, Dec 1, 2014 at 2:00 AM, Klearchos-Angelos Gkountras
<ka...@gr...> wrote:
> Ok, the end users don't want to mess their hands with terminal , can
> someone make at least a package for debian/ debian derivatives [1] ? Ok
> the users that using Debian can also see one howto [2].
> What you think ?
>
> [1] at least a ppa for ubuntu
> [2] http://www.linuxx.eu/2012/11/scid-vs-pc-installation-guide-ubuntu.html
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[Scidvspc-users] Binary for Scid Vs PC on Debian derivatives

[Klearchos-Angelos G. <ka...@gr...>]

Ok, the end users don't want to mess their hands with terminal , can
someone make at least a package for debian/ debian derivatives [1] ? Ok
the users that using Debian can also see one howto [2].
What you think ?

[1] at least a ppa for ubuntu
[2] http://www.linuxx.eu/2012/11/scid-vs-pc-installation-guide-ubuntu.html
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