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H.G.Muller



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PostPost subject: Re: ScidVsPC/Mac    Posted: Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:41 pm Reply to topic Reply with quote
JuLieN wrote:
Thanks H.G., I'll take a look at that. But ScidVsMac has no swiss system, sadly. Maybe Xboard has?


How did you guess? Laughing

But actually, there could be a problem there, which I have to check. WinBoard, and thus XBoard, implement Swiss through an external pairing engine: it sends a string of game results to that engine, and a game number of the next round, and the pairing engine then replies with who has to play who in that game (as player numbers).

I wrote a simple version of such an engine, (like most GUIs, it provides only an approximation to the very complex official FIDE rules for Swiss) and distribute it with WinBoard, but I am not sure if I posted the sources anywhere, and whether they were ever compiled for Linux or Mac. So it could be that the current Mac distribution for XBoard doesn't contain it, meaning that Swiss is disabled. I will check it out.

For a heavy-duty tournament manager, being able to start and stop tournaments is a must. The odds for a 96-day uninterrupted run are not very good... In XBoard I used the tournament file as the as the central concept, around which everything revolves. (With a very nice and straightforward scheme for concurrency as a consequence.)

But I agree that it makes no sense to try to turn SCID into a heavy-duty tournament manager, just as it would make no sense to turn XBoard in a heavy-duty database manager. (I want it to support the most basic database functionality, however, because for most of the variants SCID is no alternative, and in fact there isn't any alternative at all.)
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ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Tue Mar 06, 2012 10:22 pm
      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:08 am
      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:34 am
            Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:42 am
                  Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:54 am
                        Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:05 pm
                              Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:15 pm
                              Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:17 pm
                                    Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Ignacio Garcia Wed Mar 07, 2012 5:22 pm
      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:42 am
            Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:48 am
                  Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Wed Mar 07, 2012 11:58 am
                        Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 12:07 pm
                              Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Wed Mar 07, 2012 1:41 pm
                                    Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:01 pm
                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Wed Mar 07, 2012 2:25 pm
                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Wed Mar 07, 2012 8:20 pm
                                                Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:39 pm
                                                      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Fri Mar 09, 2012 12:49 pm
                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:36 am
                                                Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Sat Mar 10, 2012 6:41 am
                                                      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:10 am
                                                Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:08 am
                                                      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Sat Mar 10, 2012 7:11 am
                                                      Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Sat Mar 10, 2012 8:49 am
                                                            Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Sat Mar 10, 2012 9:03 am
                                                                  Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Sat Mar 10, 2012 12:44 pm
                                                                        Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:01 pm
                                                                              Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Michel Van den Bergh Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:15 pm
                                                                        Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Sat Mar 10, 2012 1:44 pm
                                                                              Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Sun Mar 11, 2012 1:44 am
                                                                                    Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Mon Mar 12, 2012 8:18 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Mon Mar 12, 2012 9:16 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:31 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:51 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Mon Mar 12, 2012 11:55 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Mon Mar 12, 2012 1:08 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:07 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:17 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Tue Mar 13, 2012 11:25 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Tue Mar 13, 2012 7:54 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Wed Mar 14, 2012 8:17 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Thu Mar 15, 2012 9:06 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Thu Mar 15, 2012 11:41 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:15 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Thu Mar 15, 2012 12:58 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Sun Jan 06, 2013 12:33 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Mon Jan 07, 2013 11:38 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Mon Jan 07, 2013 3:25 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:32 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Mon Jan 07, 2013 9:48 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:03 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:19 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:37 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:40 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Don Dailey Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:47 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Mon Jan 07, 2013 10:51 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Julien MARCEL Sun Apr 28, 2013 7:57 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Tue Apr 30, 2013 6:44 am
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Thu Mar 15, 2012 3:02 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Steven Atkinson Thu Mar 22, 2012 12:12 pm
                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac H.G.Muller Sun Jan 06, 2013 8:36 am
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                                                                                          Re: ScidVsPC/Mac Don Dailey Mon Jan 07, 2013 5:19 pm
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