Retransmission. I sent the first copy of this in HTML and then remembered that the mailing list archive requires text only. I have done that wrong before. Fulvio, perhaps you can delete the HTML version from the archive. Sorry to all for the retransmission.
-------------------------------------------------------- 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 Please don't drop this feature or let it get out of date. 5.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 > On 01/06/2026 10:02 PM EST Fulvio via Scid-users > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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 _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
