Hi...do you know a short key which will enable one step into variation and step out of a variation in Scid VsPC?
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Jul 5, 2013
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Hmmm -- the keyboard shortcuts are listed somewhere --
http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/doc/ShortCuts.htm
Also, if you're in ScidVsPC, go to the Help menu item, and open Help. Then, go to the Help Index. You should see a link to some Keyboard shortcuts.
Here they are for Mac: (you should try the Ctrl key instead of Cmd if you have ScidVsPC)
Keyboard Shortcuts
Shortcuts are case sensitive.
The window manager may interfere with some shortcuts.
Sorted Alphabetically
General
Use standard notation to input moves with the keyboard (eg e4).
left - Back one move
right - Forward one move
up - Back five moves
down - Forward five moves
home - Goto start
end - Goto end
control-g - Goto move number
control-f - Flip Board
escape - Clear move entry
enter - Add move from chess engine
F1 - Help
control-F7 - Dump all Images and exit (developer only)
control-F12 - Screenshot
alt-KEY - Menu shortcut (*nix only)
Scid Windows
control-p - PGN window
control-l - Gamelist window
control-e - Comment editor
control-m - Maintenance window
control-i - Statistics window
control-t - Tree window
control-y - ECO browser
control-X - Crosstable
control-S - Setup board
control-b - Book window
control-Z - Score graph
escape - Close window
Engines
control-A - Configure analysis engines
F2 - Toggle engine 1
F3 - Toggle engine 2
F4 - Toggle engine 3
enter - Add move from chess engine
Copy / Paste
control-c - Copy game to Clipbase
control-v - Paste game from Clipbase
control-C - Copy FEN
control-V - Paste FEN
control-I - Import PGN
Games and Databases
control-r - Replace game
control-s - Save (new) game
control-up - Previous game
control-down - Next game
control-home - First game
control-end - Last game
control-x - New game
control-G - Load game number
control-? - Load random game
control-n - New database
control-o - Open database
control-w - Close database
control-/ - Finder
control-1 - Switch to first open base
control-2 - Switch to second open base
....
control-9 - Switch to Clipbase
Search / Filter
control-H - General (header) search
control-B - Board search
control-M - Material search
control-F - Reset filter
control-N - Negate Filter
control-P - Player finder
control-T - Tournament finder
control-Y - Find novelty
control-Z - Score graph
Variations
control-a - Add variation
v - Enter variation
z - Exit variation
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Alphabetical
control-a - Add variation
control-A - Analysis engines
control-b - Book window
control-B - Board search
control-c - Copy game to Clipbase
control-C - Copy FEN
control-e - Comment editor
control-f - Flip Board
control-F - Reset filter
control-g - Goto move number
control-G - Load game number
control-H - General (header) search
control-i - Statistics window
control-I - Import PGN
control-l - Gamelist window
control-m - Maintenance window
control-M - Material search
control-n - New database
control-N - Negate Filter
control-o - Open database
control-p - PGN window
control-P - Player finder
control-r - Replace game
control-s - Save (new) game
control-S - Setup board
control-t - Tree window
control-T - Tournament finder
control-v - Paste game from Clipbase
control-V - Paste FEN
control-y - ECO browser
control-w - Close database
control-x - New game
control-X - Crosstable
control-Y - Find novelty
control-/ - Finder
control-? - Load random game
enter - Add move from chess engine
v - Enter variation
z - Exit variation
control-1 - Switch to first open base
control-2 - Switch to second open base
....
control-9 - Switch to Clipbase
left - Back one move
right - Forward one move
up - Back five moves
down - Forward five moves
home - Goto start
end - Goto end
control-up - Load previous game
control-down - Load next game
control-home - Load First game
control-end - Load last game
F1 - Help
F2 - Toggle engine 1
F3 - Toggle engine 2
F4 - Toggle engine 3
control-F7 - Dump all Images and exit (developer only)
control-F12 - Screenshot
Thanks a lot. very helpful. Really beginning to like SCID vs Mac
After just 10 minutes trying out Scid vs. PC, I'm sold on Scid vs. PC.
My main goals for Scid or Scid vs. PC is:
1) View my chess games from Chess.com
2) Step through variations easily
3) Have a chess engine (any strength is fine) show me a few variations that are possible
4) Put those variations into the PGN game
Using Scid vs. PC, I was able to find my way around in about 10 minutes to accomplish those things. With Scid, I had immense trouble even finding out how to tell the chess engine to give me more than one variation and put those variations into the PGN.
It also seems much easier to navigate a chess game in Scid vs. PC. For example, if I'm in a variation, and want to get back to the main game, there's a button to go back to the main game.