Hi,
Happy New Year! Thanks to all Scid developers past and present for their
efforts.
I use Scid for as much as possible. I would use it for just about
everything if not for this:
On 1/7/26 10:34, Bahman Movaqar via Scid-users wrote:
, dropping legacy or unused features,
Please don't do that. To my mind legacy features are the best features.
And there is nothing more frustrating than wanting a "new" feature in
Scid, then researching online and finding that Scid "used to do that".
If you don't want to maintain it, I can understand. Just leave it in.
Maybe some future developer will pick it up and run with it.
A feature can be unused because nobody wants it. But I doubt that,
because the effort was made in the first place... Did the earlier
developers write code on a whim? More likely reasons why nobody uses the
feature today: poor or non-existent documentation, poor discovery (e.g.
removed from or never added to the menu), or idiosyncratic
implementation (what the developer liked vs what the average user wants.
I have in mind just about anything implemented by P.G.). Or here's a
special case: I'm on Linux and the package maintainer excluded some
dependencies, so some features simply don't work in the Scid from the
repository. For example, Play / Tactical Game gives "Phalanx or Toga not
found". Well, that's easy enough for me to work around, but not
everybody would know how. Anyway I compiled a more recent version for
.si5 support.
Just off the top of my head, below are some "unpopular" things I use
Scid for. There are others, but you get the idea.
- .bin books, both displaying (book window) and editing (book tuning)
- .epd databases, have to use v4, wish it were still in v5
- .sso saved searches, absolutely NEED that on my ultraportable
At the moment I am really pining for a way in v5 to save searches for
something other than material. I could do it in v4.5.2, and v5 can still
load a saved search. I edit a template .sso by hand and it works, but
the average user is never going to do that.
And the "find tactics" in Scid, what to say? I don't use it, because
it's just badly done. But if it were well done, I definitely would use
it. I train tactics using tChess Pro on my phone, but decent "find
tactics" is top of my wish list for Scid.
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https://scid-users.narkive.com/rIGBhxTp/tactics
So, this won't find tactics which actually happened in the game
and without blunder on opponents part?
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Michal Rudolf
Post by Pascal Georges
But my purpose is not to get all cases, just to be able
to generate good tactical positions, suitable for
training.
Post by Michal Rudolf
Sure, but getting as many good positions as possible is
nice, as the search is slow anyway.
I agree but the few positions I got are interesting and
challenging enough. So it is highly feasible to get a 1000 games
base, which would need many days to be solved. That is enough
for me.
Pascal
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Alan
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