I just downloaded and compiled 3.6.24. The analysis window only shows the
current PV and not the previous PVs. Is there a way to show each PV as it is
calculated and scroll the PVs so the user can see how it changes over time?
Without that, I'm afraid I'll have to go back to .23 ...
Thanks,
Roy
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One could also think about offering a large reference DB.
Some time ago chesslib.no offered a free 2*10^6 games subset
of their main db, and they also released their final db to
the public domain before the site went down. Today you can
not get this DB from chesslib.no, but still I'd have the
complete DB available here. I'd not pack such a thing into
scid distribution of course but one could offer it as an
additional ressource.
Also a community project within the current scid framework
to create such a DB is worth to consider. A start might be
"complete TWIC" plus manual selection of major tournaments
before TWIC started, or whatever. I don't know what the
community here thinks about such a thing, but actually if
there are some volunteers that says "ah, if I only could I'd
support this project but I don't know a thing about
programming" this would be a place to start. Besides,
workload on such a project scales pretty well: if a
tournament is not included in V1.0, so be it it can come in
V1.01... Acutally, I think if there're some volunteers that
have fun with such things in the end Scid-Mega would be
better than CB-Mega ;) Especially taking care about
doublette games, crosschecking that all tournaments are
included completely and stuff like that makes this a bit
more difficult than just adding TWIC every other week.
Additionally, delivering a good predefined index to such a
DB is really worth some work.
There already exists good free games collections, like ibase and Grand06, but I
can't find again their sites :-(
But I am sure searching a little bit, a good game DB can be set up from free
resources.
A similar project would be to set up a really good opening
book. E.g. Arena's main opening book is created by such an
efford. Ok, there's one person in charge that works this
out, but still it could be that in the community here some
people are arround that say: ok, lets set such a thing up,
I'm an expert in the Sicilian and you can my friend is a
special fan of the Ruy and in our local club...
Maybe you refer to Harry Schnapp's work ? Indeed a good reference opening book
would be a good thing, even more if human tuned and checked.
Though I think I'd not place such things within the main
distribution but into some "additional ressources" part.
These could be hosted at SF or somewhere else.
Pascal
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2008/6/22 Bogdan Burlacu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
Hello everybody!
Regarding the discussion about scid having a default db included, maybe
a script/program to download games from the internet could be bundled
up. For example I have my own little C program using libcurl which can
get all TWIC issues from chesscenter.com, ending up with over 700K games.
I know this suggestion is a little different but it works.
Bogdan
There is a python script in the directory scripts of Scid : twic2scid.py.
It seems to do what you wrote in C.
By the way I found back the ibase url : http://www.icofy.net/index.php?lc=2
>From the description :
"Giving the chess player of each strength a free database to prepare for an
opponent or an opening system.
This
free chess games collection in PGN format, which can be downloaded by
everyone, is regularly updated and constantly manually revised."
It is pretty ok for me. Maybe a Scid DB conversion and putting the result
"somewhere" on internet could help users ? I cannot personnaly host it because
I wonder why the ISP Free.fr did not already kicked me out, given the bandwidth
I use for Scid.
Pascal
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