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Can somebody please explain aboud the correspondence function? As far as i understand, there are 2 options, through a xfcc server, or through email. If this is correct, does anyone know how to set up the email function, and would someone be interested in playing a engine vs engine game with me using this function?

I'm having a little trouble setting up practice endings to play against different engines. Say I want to practice K+B+N vs K, how do I set that up? Thanx in advance.

Hi friends, I use SCID under Mac OS X (10.6.4). It is near to perfect but only near. 1) Because if I like to set up a new position at the board, I cannot see the squares.2) The start dialog shows that the option.dat were not found. What to do? Where can I find the option.dat file and how can I choose the board-settings that I can see the squares colors if I like to set up a new position. Thanks for help - and if there is a german speaker who can help me, that would be excellent. Best regardsNaat

Some of you might be interested in a blog post I made with some of my thoughts after working out a process for annotating games in Scid. http://blog.chess.com/MarshallScott/annotating-games-with-scid-and-crafty

When the SCID display shows White at the bottom the animation is nice and smooth. If the display has Black at the bottom it is jerky. Does everyone have this problem or is there a way to overcome it?

Is there any way to do this inside Scid? I have games in a DB where the players and dates are represented by ???, and I would like to fix this information. The best I can come up with, is export the game to pgn, edit the pgn file, delete the original, and import the edited pgn. It just seems there should be a shorter way?

Hello all, I just joined this group(and just got SCID), and I need help. I am try to make move trees of opening variations that I have handwritten. If anyone can help that would be great! thanks.

Just a quick question: which free engines do you run with SCID? (If they're not Scidlet and Crafty, ie., the engines that come with SCID, please give the names & website links.)

This blog post is about to how to create a free chess database, and the guy uses SCID to do it. For Newbies it's a must read...

Pascal released Scid 4.1 a few days ago. Mostly some bug fixes, a few tweaks to the UI, and an undo function (ctrl-Z)! This is the changelist: scid-4.1========- Features :------------- Added the display of arrows when several variations are available. Thedisplay can be toggled using the menu Options -> Moves -> Show arrowsfor variations (Thanks to Fulvio)- When playing a move already existing in a variation, the variation isautomatically entered into. To add a new variation starting with thesame move, the menu Edit-> Add variation must be used (Thanks to Fulvio)- Added undo feature (10 undos max). Shortcut is Ctrl-z. For coders : rollback points are set by calling {sc_game undoPoint}in Tcl or sc_game_save_for_undo() in C++.- Updated Scid Pocket to new base format (version 4). Version 4.1includes Robbolito chess engine, which is by far the best of all !Really impressive. It outweighs all other engines on Pocket PC.- Fixes :---------- entering comments for last move of a line was broken- setting the blunder flag from maintenance window was broken ("?" wasconsidered part of a regular expression)- when compacting a game file, custom flags description was lost- custom flags description are now commited to index file as soon asthey are modified- Informant values were overwritten by default values at startup- UCI engines : send "go infinite" instead of "go infinite ponder"because it is not handled correctly by some engines and "go infinite"seems sufficient- fixed a bug when USCF piece set was selected and the library tkimg notinstalled (under Linux)- UI may be unresponsive when an engine outputs lots of garbage whennearing a mate. Fixed for UCI engines only as I don't have an example ofsuch misbehaviour of an xboard engine.- Fixed a possible buffer overflow when parsing a malformed PGN (Thanksto Fulvio)- Modified slightly UCI parser in order to get Prodeo to work (there'sno garantee that Prodeo will work as it does not comply to UCI protocol)(Thanks to Shiv Shivaji)- Fixed an error popping up when pressing right arrow very quickly withthe variations window displayed and engines taking all available CPU- Fixed impossibility of stripping comments and variations when displayof short headers was turned on.- Rewrite of "Review game" code : moves are no longer in comments,engine analysis is updated more often

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I just noticed that Scid 4.0 has come out: http://scid.sf.net I haven't had time yet to try it out. Post your findings here :-)

I keep a dbase of all my old games and they are arrainged according to my opponent's name. The problem is that there are actually two lists. SCID alphabetizes all the uppercase A-Z and then lower case a-z. Does anyone know if this can be changed so there is only one list?

I love SCID and I use it all the time. However there is one feature I find very annoying and I would love to disable it if anyone can tell me how. Situation - I have SCID open and then I have other windows open which are partially in front of the SCID window - and if I then allow the cursor to roll over even the smallest portion of the SCID window then it will then pull SCID to the front so that it blocks my view of the other windows. Can someone tell me if this can be disabled?

I want to mention a few things of Scid that I love, and that I don't think everybody knows. When I have time. First thing: THE CLIPBASE. This is a complete, temporary database. Say, you have a huge database, and you use it for a lot of opening statistics, the tree window, et cetera. But now you only want to do this for games where Kasparov played 1.d4. Search for header "Kasparov" as white. Play 1.d4, search for "Current position", using AND (restrict filter). Now you have selected all Kasparov's 1.d4 games. Now open the Database switcher (ctrl-D). You'll see in your main database that you have some number of games of the total selected. Now you can drag those games into the clipbase. Say the number is 150/20000, then click on the 150 and drag it into the clipbase. Click on the clipbase to switch to it. Now you can use the tree, et cetera, but just on the selected games! Sounds complicated but really isn't. And it's extremely powerful.