Jim Ratliff

Game List display mangles player names with non-ASCII unicode characters

After further investigation and some experimentation, I've revised my understanding of what's going on here. The parenthetically wrapped Elo ratings are not the result of bad input (parentheses in the source PGN). Instead, these parenthetically wrapped Elo ratings are added by Scid vs. PC/Mac when (a) no rating is specified for a player in a game and (b) Scid can find another game in the database in which that player has a rating. More specifically, for each player, it looks like Scid finds the first...

Delete Twin Games can delete games that aren't disclosed to user

I'm building a reference database beginning with Caïssabase. MANY (but a minority) of the games have the players' Elo ratings wrapped in parentheses, e.g., "(2300)". These games don't sort by Elo properly. (They don't even sort alphabetically when the set of parentheses-wrapped Elo games. I think all non-valid Elo ratings, including blanks, all sort to the end.) To my surprise, these games DO seem properly treated by General search criteria specifying ranges of ratings. But since they are not properly...

I want to clarify Martin's question in three ways: He doesn't supply the raw PGN but rather just two versions of its presentation; so I provide my conjecture of what PGN he has in mind. When he says "when 'keep varions inline'", I believe he means in this case: When Preferences » Game » "Keep variations inline from level" is 4 or higher. * I think he tried to use tabs in the lower presentation to create indentation, but the indentation was not rendered in the post. So I try to fix that here. I believe...

Cross reference: Bug report #279 Wrong indent in game notation, created June 21, 2020.

I want to clarify Martin's question in three ways: He doesn't supply the raw PGN but rather just two versions of its presentation; so I provide my conjecture of what PGN he has in mind. When he says "when 'keep varions inline'", I believe he means in this case: When Preferences » Game » "Keep variations inline from level" is 4 or higher. * I think he tried to use tabs in the lower presentation to create indentation, but the indentation was not rendered in the post. So I try to fix that here. I believe...

I want to clarify Martin's question in three ways: He doesn't supply the raw PGN but rather just two versions of its presentation; so I provide my conjecture of what PGN he has in mind. When he says "when 'keep varions inline'", I believe he means in this case: When Preferences » Game » "Keep variations inline from level" is 4 or higher. * I think he tried to use tabs in the lower presentation to create indentation, but the indentation was not rendered in the post. So I try to fix that here. I believe...