The engine output is exactly the same as in previous Scid's versions. Only
the UI has changed.
Pascal
2008/6/22 Roy Brunjes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> 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.
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> These could be hosted at SF or somewhere else.
>
> Pascal
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> 2008/6/22 Bogdan Burlacu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
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>> 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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