Hello, Fulvio. I use the program mainly to analyze games, prepare against my opponents, and build/refine my opening repertoire. I'm also a Fedora user, so it would be nice to have SCID in the repositories. I don't need features for online play or tactical exercises. Thanks for all the work you're doing!
Luciano Salerno Il giorno mer 7 gen 2026 alle ore 04:02 Fulvio via Scid-users < [email protected]> ha scritto: > Happy New Year to everyone. > I asked an AI (Claude-Opus) to modernize the crosstable code to C++20. > While reviewing it, one line struck me: Copyright 2001 Shane Hudson. > In 25 years, so many things have changed: online play on Lichess or > Chess.com, live video streaming of games, ... The days of ICC feel far > away. > Scid was the best alternative available on Linux, my main use was to > prepare before a game against an opponent. I used three opening trees > and gamelists: my opponent's games, games with Elo > 2200, and all games. > But I still remember the frustration: calculating statistics took > forever, it wasn't possible to move around the board until it finished, > and there was only a single gamelist (I used 2 temporary databases as a > workaround). > Now that I only play the occasional online game, I use Scid solely to > review games from major events, like the recent World Blitz > Championship. Although Lichess offers web Stockfish, I prefer the faster > local version. I also have a small database where I copy and annotate > the games I like the most. > There are features I don't use and haven't been updated in years, such > as the FICS module or training functions like solving tactical puzzles. > They're simply not comparable to what Lichess offers today. > I'd like to understand what your uses of Scid are. Knowing which > features are still valuable would help me with the cleanup of code that > has become obsolete. > Bye, > Fulvio > > > > _______________________________________________ > Scid-users mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users >
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