Fulvio, these are my use cases for Scid, from most important to least.
1. Analyzing my games using Tools --> Analysis Engine --> Annotate. It's important to me to be able to automatically analyze the entire game, as opposed to having to sit at the computer and analyze each move one by one.
2. Analyzing my statistics using Tools --> Player Report. I use this feature to tune my opening repertoire: I drop openings I score poorly with. This feature led me to a great discovery. Against 1. e4, I have always played both ... e5 and ... c5, and I thought I had about the same score with each. But with Player Report I learned, to my great surprise, that I scored 15% better with ... c5 than with ... e5.
3. Preparing for opponents. In my club, we play the same opponents very often, so it's useful to look up previous games with them and look for improvements.
4. Book window. Please don't drop this feature or let it get out of date.
5. Identifying the opening with Game --> Identify Opening. Ditto.
6. Ability to add engines. I use this to add engines and need to be able to set the number of threads and the hash size.
Nice-to-have features
1. My main request is to add Scid to the regular Fedora package repositories. That will provide two benefits: (1) Scid will get updated automatically whenever I do a dnf upgrade and (2) it will give me more confidence that I am downloading the program from a well-tested and secure site.
Features I don't use
1. I do not use the FICS or training features you mentioned in your note, nor for that matter any of the features under Play.
Thank you so much for maintaining this terrific program. Scid was a pleasant discovery for me. It's by far the best option for us Linux users.
James Williams
Alexandria, Virginia, USA
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