Hi Pascal, I am not sure that I agree to your statement that the tree window handles "positions". Actually, I am sure it does not.
It is really moves that are listed, together with some statistics on games in which these moves were played. When you execute one of these moves, very often the overall statistics on the position you arrive at are different (because of other transpositions into the new position). I am also sure that moves that were never played in actual games but which DO transpose to positions which are in the database are not mentioned in the tree list. Another example: 1.e4 d5 Now I want to transpose asap into a basic Caro-Kann. Note that the move 2.d4 is not in the tree list at all.. 2.d4 Hm, still 8000 games saw this position before. Now the intended 2...c6 is in the list, but has statistics on only 236 games... 2... c6 Back on track, with 72000 games.... So I definitely prefer an attempt to simply prune illegal moves from the tree window. Cheers, Joost. On Sunday 14 September 2008 15:06:41 Pascal Georges wrote: > > Hi, > > > > [3.6.23, linux] Not exactly a bug, but maybe close? > > > > Recently played a game starting with the following moves, resulting in an > > unusual french position: > > 1.e4 Nf6 2.e5 Nd5 3.Bc4 Nb6 4.Bb3 d5 5.d4 e6 > > > > Now looking at the scid tree window, my big database reports the options > > Nf3, > > Be3 and exd6.. The third alternative of course being an illegal > > en-passant capture in the same position but reached using a different > > move order. > > > > Anything that could be done about this? > > Hi, > > Tree window handles positions, not sequence of moves : so exd6 is possible > if the latest move played was d5 (transposition). A bit weird in that case, > I agree. > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list Scid-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
