SCID vs PC

[Event "London Provincial"]
[Site "London"]
[Date "1851.??.??"]
[Round "2.4"]
[White "Brien, Robert Barnett"]
[Black "Boden, Samuel Standidge"]
[Result "0-1"]
[ECO "C41"]
[PlyCount "82"]
[EventDate "1851.06.03"]
[EventType "k.o."]
[EventRounds "3"]
[EventCountry "ENG"]
[Source "ChessBase"]

1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3. d4 exd4 4. Nxd4 d5 5. Bd3 c5 6. Nb5 c4 7. Be2 a6 8. Qxd5
axb5 9. Qxb5+ Nc6 10. Bxc4 Qa5+ 11. Nc3 Bd6 12. f4 Nge7 13. Bd2 O-O 14. Qxa5
Nxa5 15. Bd3 Nac6 16. O-O Bc5+ 17. Kh1 Nb4 18. Rf3 b6 19. Nb5 Nxd3 20. cxd3 Bd7
21. Nc3 Rfd8 22. Be3 Bxe3 23. Rxe3 Nc6 24. a3 Nd4 25. Rc1 Rdc8 26. Kg1 Nb5 27.
Kf2 Nxc3 28. bxc3 Rxa3 29. d4 b5 30. d5 Kf8 31. e5 Ke7 32. h3 h5 33. e6 fxe6
34. dxe6 Bc6 35. Rd1 Ra2+ 36. Kg3 Rxg2+ 37. Kh4 Rf8 38. Rd4 Rf2 39. Kg5 h4 40.
Re5 Rg2+ 41. Kxh4 Be8 0-1

This is a really good game go through it. I don't know how to copy the chess board otherwise i would have done so

See: http://www.chess.com/article/view/how-to-use-the-chesscom-diagr

Hello,

I have a problem with resizing board ( ScidvsPc 4.10 Mac OSx)

I drag the corner of the windows to change the board size but the max size is too small for my 27" iMac. Any idea to solve the problem? 

(The windows version does not seem to have this problem.)

Have you tried it with different piece fonts? 

One idea is that the default piece font doesn't have a larger size, but maybe other piece fonts do contain larger images.

Hi Ed,

SCID vs PC - I tried to change the fonts and configuration parameters without results

SCID - the menu for the configuration size of the board is a little different and the maximum size is adjustable to 11

zergnapola,

How did you make that screenshot of just the menus?

Thanks

I'm sorry, I'm not able to help.  I don't know why the max size is too small for you. 

Here's what my max size looks like, with my screen resolution and monitor.  Although it doesn't quite fill the entire screen, I'm okay with this max size.

http://xcatsan.com/simplecap-en/

No problems Ed, grazie

ciao

Yes the SCID max board size is far too small on my mac as well. Its the main reason I don't use SCID vs Mac. I prefer ChessX www.box.com/chessx which has a much better looking board which I can make as large as I wish.

HOW to enter null moves in scid? sometimes i get it, i dont know how. but i dont get it when i actually need it..

Well, it's mentioned in the Scid help file. Anyway, using your mouse to make an illegal KxK move will add a null move to a game. This works both in Scid and Scid vs. PC.

Another method that works in Scid vs. PC is to press the minus key on the keyboard twice. Oddly, this keyboard method didn't work for my older version of Scid.

Thank you Escherehcse. I did look up in help, i didnt get it. Also the keyboard method doesnt work for my scid vs pc. KXK works.
Thank you once again 

Maybe this is a recent fix to Scid vs. PC? Which version of Scid vs. PC are you using?

In Scid vs. PC 4.10 both methods work for me

SCID VS PC 4.10.

yes both methods are woking now. but earlier when i tried it wasnt. dont know why?

No idea. Maybe a flaky minus key on your keyboard?

what is chess endgame tablebase?

how to use them on scid or scidvspc?

Endgame tablebases are files that will give a perfect solution, as long as the number of pieces left on the board (including pawns and kings) are within the capabilities of the tablebases. For example, a 3-4-5 piece tablebase set can solve positions containing two kings, two rooks, and one pawn. (or any other combination of five pieces).

Scid vs. PC uses tablebase files that use the Nalimov format. You can download them at either of these two sites:

http://folk.uib.no/pfvaf/chesslib/Nalimov.htm

http://tablebase.sesse.net/

(The sesse site requests that you not use a download accelerator.)

A 3-4-5 piece Nalimov tablebase set requires a little over 7 GB of hard drive space. (A 3-4-5-6 piece set = around 1 TB.) The downloads include files with an MD5 file extension. This is a list of MD5 hash signatures for the Nalimov files which you can use to verify that your downloaded files are not corrupt. An easy way to verify the MD5 hash signatures is to use the freeware MD5Checker program, here:  http://getmd5checker.com/

Once you've downloaded the tablebase files, placed them in a folder of your choice, and verified the MD5 hashes, then simply open Scid vs. PC, go to the Options -> Tablebase Directory menu, and choose the folder path containing the tablebase files.

Well written answer.