Scid vs. PC 4.6

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stevenaaus
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Scid vs. PC 4.6

Post by stevenaaus »

New features include
Undo and Redo (partly from SCID)
Microsoft Windows installer
Always loads games at the correct game ply when using the tree and searches.
Ratings graph can show multiple players (and there's a minimum ELO feature)
Book tuning 'Remove move' feature
Annotation improvements, and it is now possible to score All moves while only annotating Blunders.

Source: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvsp ... z/download
Windows: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvsp ... e/download
Mac: http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvsp ... g/download
Homepage: http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/index.html
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Other changes
Computer Tournament: Improvements for both Xboard and UCI engines, and implement the 50 move draw rule.
Auto-promote feature for FICs
Biographical data for aliases is shown in the player information window
Autoraise button raises all windows
The player info widget has buttons enabling quick player renames and look-up.
'Read-Only' context menu in the Database Switcher, and Read-Only bases are greyed out.
Fix bug in the opening/theory table
Remember game position when stripping comments and variations from PGN
Change analysis colors for MultiPV to black/grey instead of blue/black.
New 'Search in (other) Database' feature to the board search (from SCID)
Variation/Mainline arrows can have custom colours.
Crosstable can (optionally) show 3 points for a win
Fix sc_remote (which allows games to be opened in an already running Scid vs PC)
Phalanx tacgame bug-fixes (play brainy, and stop after the correct amount of time)
Tweak the best games widget (make fields line-up)
When handling Import PGN errors, show the game numbers as well as the line in file.
Catch a nasty wish8.5.10 bug with the gamelist (Wish-8.5.10 should be avoided)
Remove the broken integer field validation and replace it with something that allows backspace to work.
Bind Control-Tab to 'switch to next base', and Control-(quoteleft) to 'switch to clipbase'
Fix a couple of corner cases concerning dates and searches.
Analysis widget : small speed improvements , icon changes and bug-fixes
Add a help item for Maintenance 'Check Games' feature.
Swap around the 'Next Move' and 'Event' game-information lines.
New documentation about making Polyglot books.
Make the player Report config widget a bit easier to use.
New OSX HowTo
Crosstable bugfix: the 'show white first' feature didn't work for two match rounds.
Update 'Tips'
Clarify Scid's maximum number of games
Update Spanish and Polish translations
Update FICs , PGN and Menu language translations
IGarcia
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Re: Scid vs. PC 4.6

Post by IGarcia »

Thanks for your great work!
Downloading now. (linux).
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Ozymandias
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Re: Scid vs. PC 4.6

Post by Ozymandias »

I think I'll download it at some point just for the Ratings graph capabilities, nice.
IGarcia
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Re: Scid vs. PC 4.6

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Re: Scid vs. PC 4.6

Post by countrychess »

On my system, Scid VS PC 4.6 crashes after trying to save crosstables in html or txt. I didn't have that with previous versions. Very nice program anyway!
stevenaaus
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Re: Scid vs. PC 4.6

Post by stevenaaus »

On my system, Scid VS PC 4.6 crashes after trying to save crosstables in html or txt. I didn't have that with previous versions. Very nice program anyway!
Hmmm... I have made some changes here, but can't reproduce this on any of my test systems. Can you can isolate the tournament/cause ?
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Re: Scid vs. PC 4.6

Post by tomgdrums »

I just installed the newest Scid vs PC 4.6 and just wanted to say thanks!

Love this application!
stevenaaus
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Re: Scid vs. PC 4.6

Post by stevenaaus »

Thanks :)