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Re: [Scidvspc-users] 2 questions

[eduardo s. <edu...@gm...>]

Dear Alex:
                My databse is located in The Art of Direct Mate in Two
Moves (https://sites.google.com/site/edusadier/theartofdirectmateintwomoves)
and there you can freely download it. I´m recovering from a Pc crush,
so the update will be arriving in the next 3 weeks, making it a
138.000 problems database.
              Thanks for you interest, best regards, eduardo sadier

Re: [Scidvspc-users] 2 questions

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

> 1) It´s any way to edit the database items, I say to change the "read
> only" characteristic?

Just incase your db is in PGN - you'll have to read the documentation
and start to use a native scid (.si4) database. It's well worth while doing.
Otherwise, the only problems are with file/directory write permissions.

> 2) It´s any way to eliminate some columns in the "game list" window,
> for example, not see the Eco or the Result column?

Not properly. All you can do is adjust the column widths by dragging
the edges of the column titles..
Maybe one day...

The next release should have a fix for the (my-bad) bug that stops the
gamelist column widths
from being remembered.

Today i coded a per-depth engine annotation feature, and squashed a
nasty bug in the
computer tournament feature, so i'm getting keen to make a 4.11
release in the next month.

S.A.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] 2 questions

[Aleksandar J. <jos...@gm...>]

Hi Eduardo,
Will be nice if you share that problems db  with others!? (via dropbox or
however...)

Alex.


On Fri, Nov 15, 2013 at 11:47 AM, eduardo sadier <edu...@gm...>wrote:

> Hello: From some time I´ve been using ScidvsPc for my chess problems
> database (137.000 chess problems, 30 M) and it is a super fast
> database, with good finding resources.
> But I can´t solve two things:
> 1) It´s any way to edit the database items, I say to change the "read
> only" characteristic?
> 2) It´s any way to eliminate some columns in the "game list" window,
> for example, not see the Eco or the Result column?
> Thanks for your advice. eduardo
>
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[Scidvspc-users] 2 questions

[eduardo s. <edu...@gm...>]

Hello: From some time I´ve been using ScidvsPc for my chess problems
database (137.000 chess problems, 30 M) and it is a super fast
database, with good finding resources.
But I can´t solve two things:
1) It´s any way to edit the database items, I say to change the "read
only" characteristic?
2) It´s any way to eliminate some columns in the "game list" window,
for example, not see the Eco or the Result column?
Thanks for your advice. eduardo

[Scidvspc-users] Fast auoplay scid wished?

[<is...@is...>]

Hi gurus,
I am asking an odd thing. A scientifical sudy in the background, not  
an ordinary user feature.

What would be very good for me:
(1)Autoplay speed not limited at all (now 0.1 s).
(2)New game autoplay starts from a multiple pgn file without user  
control (for ex. after 0.5 sec delay after previous autoplay)

These changes would be technically easy to progam for a person  
familiar with the src.

My current situation is not good:
-The current Scid autoplay works with my Windows my Linux scid-4.4  
autoplay do not work.
-I tried to compile scid-4.10 src on my Ubuntu 12
  and got an error message  "src/polyglot/board.cpp:6:18: fatal error:  
cstdio: No such file or directory".

My intention was to make the changes by myself, even it would take a  
lot of time for me (not familiar with the scid src and Tcl/TK).

Any help to science?

- Error message?
- The core snippets for the changes and places where to make the  
changes(files)?

Thanks in advance: Tuomo

[Scidvspc-users] Larger board sizes

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

Thanks to the Scid mailing list for giving me impetus to make this hack
(pic attached / subversion rev 1640) which doubles the largest board
size Scid can show  :-)

It's done using the photo image scaling feature... which may or
may-not be bug-free on different platforms, so testing would be
appreciated.
Hopefully, i can try it out on Windows and OS X on the weekend.

Scaling png images works suprisingly well, but if you don't have
TkImg, and are stuck with the three gif based piece sets, these look
quite average at large sizes. Also, some of the background textures
just don't tile well.

S.

[Scidvspc-users] Gamelist context menu

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

I've added a sane context menu to the gamelist window, and freed up some
space in the button bar. Right-click for context menu, middle-click
hide/unhides the buttons.

Maybe some work needs to be done with translations ?

S.

[Scidvspc-users] OS X Mavericks issue(s)

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

I have a Mavericks beta on a Macbook.

I had to change this line in start.tcl/scid
- set macApp 0
+ set macApp 1
for it to work properly, but otherwise i havent noticed any bugs.

This OS is very interesting! My beta seems very smooth compared to
Lion/MountainLion.

They coallesce some timer events so as to lengthen CPU idle periods to
reduce battery drain. So battery life is good, but performance
critical events/apps
are reporting bugs.

S.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] TkImg fix for Mint 15

[<gre...@gm...>]

Hi,

> Mint's interface is probably the best Desktop Linux i've ever seen :-) ,
> so here's hoping i don't find any major problems with the Ubuntu backend.

I fully agree. I prefer XFCE but Mint XFCE is beautiful and very functional as well. The Mint devs and designers really know how to implement a desktop environment. At the moment I use SUSE but I'm also planning to switch to Mint.

Unfortunately I can't get rid of this quite ugly TK interface design of scid. I'm aware of this Options -> Design -> clam entry in the menu bar but when I select it, nothing happens.

Cheers,
Andreas

[Scidvspc-users] TkImg fix for Mint 15

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

Looks like i've switched my desktop to the 32 bit KDE version of Linux Mint  :)

Sorry for the rant ... but two shitty releases of Fedora is more than
i can handle.
Gnome 3.8 (deafult Fed19 GUI) is some special kind of cr*p  imho,
and Fed18's installer was just broken.

Mint's interface is probably the best Desktop Linux i've ever seen :-) ,
so here's hoping i don't find any major problems with the Ubuntu backend.

Anyway - i had to make a fix to the TkImg source to get it to compile,
as Mint 15 has hit a typo in the configure script.
Here is the link for my source.
  http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/support%20files/tkimg1.3.scidvspc.tar.bz2/download

Hopefully all you'll have to do is
  ./configure --prefix=/usr
[omit the '-prefix=/usr' if you've done a custom installation of tcl//tk]
  make
  sudo make install
and after relaunching Scid you'll have the cool png pieces that
require TkImg  support.

PS - There is also some messgae about
  "Building .... without threads enabled, but building against a Tcl
that IS thread-enabled."
But it seems to not be an issue so far.

S.A.

[Scidvspc-users] Gameinfo and Greek translations

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

I've been doing a bit more stuff, filling in the missing translations
around the place. Notably - the Gameinfo window (at the bottom) now
has more translations for all languages.

And thanks to John Gioras for making a comprehensive Greek Translation  :)
.... Though maybe the piece letter translations arent quite finalised
for this language.

We have to use single byte ascii chars for them. John tells me it should be
  Pawn = Σ   King = Ρ   Queen = B   Rook = Π   Bishop = A   kNigt = Ι
But for Pawn and Rook i have (for the moment) used
  Pawn = S and  Rook = T (as this is what mainline Scid uses)

To test Piece translations, enable Options->Move->TranslatePieces, and
close and re-open the PGN window. Changes are in subversion.

I should menton - mainline Scid has the greek letter translations
listed as "to-do" and has two differing constructs.

Steven

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Question regarding the training feature (tree window)

[<gre...@gm...>]

Hi all,

> > 1. open a database and tree.
> > 2. make sure it is your move, and select the training option in the tree window
> > 3. Make a move - Scid will then play a move from tree.  If your move
> > takes out of tree, no move is made.
> >
> > Obviously , this feature is not too polished.
> >
> > Steve
> >
> > --
> 
> Isn't this method of training merely memorizing opening moves?

Yes, so you always need to know the strategical ideas behind every opening you learn, which means, that you clearly need to know _both_ (at least above ELO 1600), the best lines and the concept behind it.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Question regarding the training feature (tree window)

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

On 10/04/2013 09:15 PM, Steve A wrote:
> Hi Andreas
>
>> I'd like to use the training feature in the tree window to practice my opening repertoire but the way to activate it seems to be a bit cumbersome. So to be sure I don't make anything wrong I describe the steps how I activate it:
>>
>> 1. open a database (as tree)
>> 2. select the training option in the tree window
>> 3. start a training game against an engine (?!)
>> 4. now, in the appearing chess clock window, I have to cancel the game to prevent computer moves (?!)
>> 5. start practicing
>>
>> I don't understand step 3 and 4 but without them, scid vs pc just doesn't answer when I make a move.
> I think your step 3 is wrong. This is how it works for me -
>
> 1. open a database and tree.
> 2. make sure it is your move, and select the training option in the tree window
> 3. Make a move - Scid will then play a move from tree.  If your move
> takes out of tree, no move is made.
>
> Obviously , this feature is not too polished.
>
> Steve
>
> --

Isn't this method of training merely memorizing opening moves?

[Scidvspc-users] Fw: Aw: Re: Question regarding the training feature (tree window)

[<gre...@gm...>]

Sorry, wrong address, my first reply went to Steve directly ...


> Hello Steve
> 
> 
> > I think your step 3 is wrong. This is how it works for me -
> > 
> > 1. open a database and tree.
> > 2. make sure it is your move, and select the training option in the tree window
> > 3. Make a move - Scid will then play a move from tree.  If your move
> > takes out of tree, no move is made.
> 
> Strange. When I follow your steps and I make my first move nothing happens. I use the Linux version by the way. This is why I desperately try to get it to work because there are no other opening trainers under Linux as far as I'm aware of. There are two or three for Windows, but they don't work with Wine.
> 
> > Obviously , this feature is not too polished.
> 
> I tend to agree but I'm not too disappointed anyway because scid vs pc is a great chess DB application. 
> 
> Thanks for your assistance,
> Andreas

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Question regarding the training feature (tree window)

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

Hi Andreas

> I'd like to use the training feature in the tree window to practice my opening repertoire but the way to activate it seems to be a bit cumbersome. So to be sure I don't make anything wrong I describe the steps how I activate it:
>
> 1. open a database (as tree)
> 2. select the training option in the tree window
> 3. start a training game against an engine (?!)
> 4. now, in the appearing chess clock window, I have to cancel the game to prevent computer moves (?!)
> 5. start practicing
>
> I don't understand step 3 and 4 but without them, scid vs pc just doesn't answer when I make a move.

I think your step 3 is wrong. This is how it works for me -

1. open a database and tree.
2. make sure it is your move, and select the training option in the tree window
3. Make a move - Scid will then play a move from tree.  If your move
takes out of tree, no move is made.

Obviously , this feature is not too polished.

Steve

[Scidvspc-users] Question regarding the training feature (tree window)

[Andreas E. <gre...@gm...>]

Hi,
 
I'd like to use the training feature in the tree window to practice my opening repertoire but the way to activate it seems to be a bit cumbersome. So to be sure I don't make anything wrong I describe the steps how I activate it:

1. open a database (as tree)
2. select the training option in the tree window
3. start a training game against an engine (?!)
4. now, in the appearing chess clock window, I have to cancel the game to prevent computer moves (?!)
5. start practicing

I don't understand step 3 and 4 but without them, scid vs pc just doesn't answer when I make a move. Furthermore, when I make a wrong move, scid vs pc just stops, without any message or hint and when I want to restart the training session, I have to repeat the steps above. This seems to be a bit odd.

Another question: this typical Motif design looks quite outdated to say the least, but when I select Options -> Design -> clam nothing happens. Any hints?

Thanks & regards,
Andreas

[Scidvspc-users] How do i list results from tournament between engines

[enrico t. <eto...@li...>]

Hi i try to speed stockfish changing compile options, after the 
tournament, between two different optimization, i dont know how to show 
results. In order to understand who's better.

ciao & thanks you!

[Scidvspc-users] Minichess 5x5

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

Mehdi has contibuted a hack to allow ScidvsPC to play minichess 5x5.

It's not very feature complete, but it is interesting, and he's also
hacked Stockfish to allow analysis (though it often crashes for me)

The new patch is in subversion and can be applied with
"svn update"
"patch -p0 <patches/minichess5x5.diff"
"make clean install"

The webpage is http://membres-lig.imag.fr/prost/MiniChessResolution/

Steve

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Todo list: +Refactorization of the game-exportation code

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

I've overhauled a lot of the tcl code, but not much/any of the C++ stuff
and am unsure about what would benefit most.
But i'm not really keen to change more of "src" than is prudent
as mainline Scid seems to have more C++ contributors
and applying their patches is easier if the codebases are closer.

But having said that, Fulvio is making lots of changes that i do not
like to include.

Personally, i do not find the game export features very interesting,
(but we do have
someone changing the latex implementation from 'chess12' to 'skak')

I know that we are doing some San / UCI conversion in tcl which could
be faster handled
in C++. OTTOMH 'proc formatPv' and 'proc sc_move_add' in uci.tcl

Steve.

On Fri, Sep 20, 2013 at 4:31 PM, YL <hpq...@16...> wrote:
>
> The game-exportation part of the program may need refactoring so that code
> for exporting games in new formats can be easily added. The existing design
> simply mixes too much code for different exporting formats in
> Game::WriteMoveList() and Game::WritePGN(), and addition of a new format
> will only mix even more.
>
> My idea is to put all these exportation stuff in a separate class Export{}
> and have the Game{} class contains it.
>
> If I had time I would work on this, however this is not the case (and my
> programming experience is literally meagre and Tcl/Tk is completely new to
> me, too). So this may be put on the todo list.
>
>
>
>

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Todo list: +Refactorization of the game-exportation code

[YL <hpq...@16...>]

The game-exportation part of the program may need refactoring so that code for exporting games in new formats can be easily added. The existing design simply mixes too much code for different exporting formats in Game::WriteMoveList() and Game::WritePGN(), and addition of a new format will only mix even more.
 
My idea is to put all these exportation stuff in a separate class Export{} and have the Game{} class contains it.
 
If I had time I would work on this, however this is not the case (and my programming experience is literally meagre and Tcl/Tk is completely new to me, too). So this may be put on the todo list.

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Todo list

[Ben St-P. <ben...@gm...>]

> Perhaps we should just link-to/incorporate these existing databases. ?

The resource has been added to

https://sourceforge.net/p/scid/wiki/GetResources/

with an indirect endorsement.  I'm not sure I have time to review the
collection, but I trust Katar and Steven.

It fits well between Ingo's and Norm's.

[Scidvspc-users] Scid vs. PC 4.10

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

Here's the source and OS X release candidates.
Windows 64 bit is not there yet, but should be in the next few days,
so i wont announce it again.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/source/scid_vs_pc-4.10.tgz/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/mac/ScidvsMac-4.10.dmg/download

OS X even has the snack sound library included.
You'll still need to install the sound files from (below) and go to
Options->Sounds to enable it.
I dont trust the buggy sound so much as to include it by default.

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

S.A.

Changelog: 4.10 (August 25, 2013)

    When sorting databases, don't reset filter and remember current
game/gamestate
    Implement (and bugfix) SCID's more comprehensive NAG framework
    Change a couple of field orders in the gamelist, remember field
widths, and remove the icon context menus from the switcher (middle
click now toggles show/hide the database icons)
    FICS: Allow use of alternative URLs (used during FICS outage) and
other minor tweaks
    Window focus improvements (mainly for MS Windows and OS X)
    Computer Tournament: add 'Engine Scores as comments' option, and
make some minor global/:: var changes
    Add Book Tuning to dockable windows
    Automatically flip board (if applicable) in game browser and
analysis miniboards.
    When diffing twin games, ignore newlines in the comments, which
make diffing impossible
    Add undo points for user generated addNag events
    Bookmarks: add a few key bindings (delete/up/down), and shuffle
the gamelist bookmark button up one row
    Drag and drop hardening
    Windows 7 bugfix: PGN export and Progress bars weren't working in
undocked mode
    Translation framework updates. Overhaul Dutch translation, and
remove (broken) Russian one
    Convert braces '{', '}' to '(',')' when exporting PGN comments
(against PGN standard). Also tweak various PGN help topics

[Scidvspc-users] Scid vs PC 4.10 win32

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

After a few little hiccups and point releases, i thought i'd make this
release 4.10.
It has one handy new feature - Database Sort doesnt reset game or filter -
but otherwise is just a consolidation of the docked mode really.

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows/Scid%20vs%20PC-4.10.exe/download

If there's no problems, this will be the release.
I'll hopefully have source and OS X tarballs up this weekend.

S.A.

4.10 Changes:

   When sorting databases, don't reset filter and remember current
game/gamestate
    Implement (and bugfix) SCID's more comprehensive NAG framework
    Change a couple of field orders in the gamelist, remember field
widths, and remove the icon context menus from the switcher (middle
click now toggles show/hide the database icons)
    FICS: Allow use of alternative URLs (used during FICS outage) and
other minor tweaks
    Window focus improvements (mainly for MS Windows and OS X)
    Computer Tournament: add 'Engine Scores as comments' option, and
make some minor global/:: var changes
    Add Book Tuning to dockable windows
    Automatically flip board (if applicable) in game browser and
analysis miniboards.
    When diffing twin games, ignore newlines in the comments, which
make diffing impossible
    Add undo points for user generated addNag events
    Bookmarks: add a few key bindings (delete/up/down), and shuffle
the gamelist bookmark button up one row
    Drag and drop hardening
    Windows 7 bugfix: PGN export and Progress bars weren't working in
undocked mode
    Translation framework updates. Overhaul Dutch translation, and
remove (broken) Russian one.
    Convert braces '{', '}' to '(',')' when exporting PGN comments
(against PGN standard). Also tweak various PGN help topics

Re: [Scidvspc-users] Todo list

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

I often use Millbase myself. ... Perhaps we should just
link-to/incorporate these existing databases. ?

Re read-only - The si4 standard doesnt allow for a read-only setting anywhere.
But a good workaround is to give the files read-only permissions.
In unix this is done by
  chmod a-w DATABASE.s?4

Steve


On Sun, Aug 18, 2013 at 10:40 PM, thetasquared <ch...@th...> wrote:
> My suggestion for community database... http://katar.weebly.com/index.html
>
>
> on that topic, is it possible to make a database "read-only" by default? I
> have to set it to read-only every time I start up the program.
>
>
> On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:
>>
>> I've just compiled a quick todo of the major things that people may
>> wish to look at.
>>
>> Most of these will probably never get done :), but here they are.
>>
>> I'll write them up properly on the webpage sometime soon. If anyone
>> can think of things that've been mentioned in the past, but forgotten
>> , pls let me know.
>>
>> Steve
>>
>> * Mainline SCID's new filter sort feature finally seems to be bug
>> free, but i am unsure about it's merit. It is a little confusing
>> having more than one notion of sort, and the changes are not trivial
>> (and probably detract from stability). What do we do when copying
>> temporarily sorted games to a new base ? All bases seem to be sorted
>> the same way ?? If anyone feels strongly about this feature and is a
>> good C++ coder, they are welcome to prepare a patch for testing.
>>
>> * Openseal is an open source version of FICS Timeseal. It needs some
>> rewriting to work with Scid, though it is a small program.
>>
>> * FICS could be adapted to work with the ICC. The work involves
>> analysing the differences in the strings used by the two programs.
>> (for example, for FICS  we have this line to ackowledge successful log-in
>>    if {[string match "*Starting FICS session*" $line]} {
>> The two servers do have many similarities i think, and examining
>> xboard's "backend.c" (or some other client) for "FICS" particularities
>>
>> * Russian translation is broken afaics, and has been removed for the time
>> being.
>>
>> * The month i've updated the translations a little. (Thanks to Peter
>> for totally overhauling the Dutch one). The checklangs.tcl script is
>> in much better shape, but of course there are still lots of
>> translation "todos"
>>
>> * The TCL sound package, Snack, needs a maintainer.
>>
>> * There was a lot of work done to implement Fischer Chess (Chess 960),
>> but they never fixed all the bugs, and the web site
>> http://www.wtfai.me.uk/scid960.html is now gone. The latest code is in
>> ScidvsPC's source patches/chess960.patch
>>
>> * The Tree code works reasonably well, but i have never found the time
>> to overhaul the Slow/Fast/Slow&Fast modes. These were (for a long
>> time) negelected when Fulvio wrote the interuptible tree code. Scid
>> now has the Modes removed, so doing this in ScidvsPC probably wouldnt
>> be terribly hard to do.
>>
>> * There are two engine types - UCI and XBoard. Pascal's UCI code is in
>> some ways inferior to Shane's Xboard code.
>> Though this is mostly mitigated by the speed of modern processors,
>> it'd be nice to make use of the UCI ponder feature in analysis mode
>> (Comp mode already does so).
>>
>> * I've never had a chance to verify/update the Novag Citrine drivers
>> and interface due to lack of hardware.
>>
>> * Our Windows port needs a little overhaul to properly use Users home
>> directory to store all the various data.
>> I will get around to doing it one day though.
>>
>> * A lot of people use chessbase books (.ctg). Scid can only read
>> polyglot opening books, but inlining this projects
>> work may not be too hard.  https://github.com/sshivaji/ctgexporter
>>
>> * A quality, free, community database - though i don't really want to
>> go over what has been said before - so best
>> to trawl the mailing list archives to catch up on this one.
>>
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Re: [Scidvspc-users] Todo list

[thetasquared <ch...@th...>]

My suggestion for community database... http://katar.weebly.com/index.html


on that topic, is it possible to make a database "read-only" by default? I
have to set it to read-only every time I start up the program.


On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 4:48 AM, Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:

> I've just compiled a quick todo of the major things that people may
> wish to look at.
>
> Most of these will probably never get done :), but here they are.
>
> I'll write them up properly on the webpage sometime soon. If anyone
> can think of things that've been mentioned in the past, but forgotten
> , pls let me know.
>
> Steve
>
> * Mainline SCID's new filter sort feature finally seems to be bug
> free, but i am unsure about it's merit. It is a little confusing
> having more than one notion of sort, and the changes are not trivial
> (and probably detract from stability). What do we do when copying
> temporarily sorted games to a new base ? All bases seem to be sorted
> the same way ?? If anyone feels strongly about this feature and is a
> good C++ coder, they are welcome to prepare a patch for testing.
>
> * Openseal is an open source version of FICS Timeseal. It needs some
> rewriting to work with Scid, though it is a small program.
>
> * FICS could be adapted to work with the ICC. The work involves
> analysing the differences in the strings used by the two programs.
> (for example, for FICS  we have this line to ackowledge successful log-in
>    if {[string match "*Starting FICS session*" $line]} {
> The two servers do have many similarities i think, and examining
> xboard's "backend.c" (or some other client) for "FICS" particularities
>
> * Russian translation is broken afaics, and has been removed for the time
> being.
>
> * The month i've updated the translations a little. (Thanks to Peter
> for totally overhauling the Dutch one). The checklangs.tcl script is
> in much better shape, but of course there are still lots of
> translation "todos"
>
> * The TCL sound package, Snack, needs a maintainer.
>
> * There was a lot of work done to implement Fischer Chess (Chess 960),
> but they never fixed all the bugs, and the web site
> http://www.wtfai.me.uk/scid960.html is now gone. The latest code is in
> ScidvsPC's source patches/chess960.patch
>
> * The Tree code works reasonably well, but i have never found the time
> to overhaul the Slow/Fast/Slow&Fast modes. These were (for a long
> time) negelected when Fulvio wrote the interuptible tree code. Scid
> now has the Modes removed, so doing this in ScidvsPC probably wouldnt
> be terribly hard to do.
>
> * There are two engine types - UCI and XBoard. Pascal's UCI code is in
> some ways inferior to Shane's Xboard code.
> Though this is mostly mitigated by the speed of modern processors,
> it'd be nice to make use of the UCI ponder feature in analysis mode
> (Comp mode already does so).
>
> * I've never had a chance to verify/update the Novag Citrine drivers
> and interface due to lack of hardware.
>
> * Our Windows port needs a little overhaul to properly use Users home
> directory to store all the various data.
> I will get around to doing it one day though.
>
> * A lot of people use chessbase books (.ctg). Scid can only read
> polyglot opening books, but inlining this projects
> work may not be too hard.  https://github.com/sshivaji/ctgexporter
>
> * A quality, free, community database - though i don't really want to
> go over what has been said before - so best
> to trawl the mailing list archives to catch up on this one.
>
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