-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA256 On Wed, 7 Jan 2026 04:02:21 +0100 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 I use scid all te time. To prepare training-sessions for a group of adults; to get an insight in openings etc.. features I use: serious game: mainly to play out a position against lc0; to get more human-like analyse-lines. Afterwards correcting them with stockfish. Openings-trainer: to memorize opening-lines I would like to play; or to get a feeling for the opening. Review game: to get a first opinion about interesting lines for a game; from the perspective what you would play yourself. Hiding the moves in the analysis-engine So you can guess the move; and then play the position with the serious game -feature. Trying to let your own brain do the thinking in stead of the engine. ECO classify games. Copying games between databases. The loss of the feature of the Nalimov egtb is in my opinion regrettable. When studying some endgame-position it is a welcome feature. It would be nice to have some kind of tree when there are games with variations in the database. Perhaps some utility that would create psuedo-games from the lines. Training-features are important; information-management is not enough, there has to be a way to get it into your brain. >>greetings<< Harry -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- iQFPBAEBCAA5FiEEce0bQxi33Kvv8VQECYsNCByiXMsFAmlhN/kbFIAAAAAABAAO bWFudTIsMi41KzEuMTEsMiwyAAoJEAmLDQgcolzLe/wH/3fMD6bxjcpq4uhSowE5 O7E8OFQalCOH2pC8zjnbynzwCoOvQ35u5fBCbA28+x2CMl6a4a7u2q1fuPpAnkbf aPE47X49APq79fSeDu9qvkYw5YeZUDYSfIL2jecEMk6IbWa0gH4nElW1O00O84mK LWJxCcYUjPEBLwIS3DWfjE59D12+/S9GXnNSawjynOjvMHbTu6yARgTXvMAaqErJ OrbK5HVKnNgLpL9P44qW+b3rCwiT0OFagk3LpuIfc7Boy6R4u6xdvn+9qSTXVXTR AMrPig4WZD/ZsgQv2n0SnJN9AXRZlmeCctGvJuOstKXyEosqE/dxeK019TKhvVMO uic= =VqM4 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Scid-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/scid-users
