SCID vs PC

No. Did you just download it? If so, my suspicion is that you got it from someone who modified it.

Either that or it's simply a false positive, something I understand is not unusual with many antivirus programs.

I use Kaspersky, installed many versions of Scid and Scid vs PC in the past few years and never had any kind of report.

Yes, downloaded recently from sourceforge.net, the usual site

You can upload the file to VirusTotal and have about 50 programs check it out. If you don't know who's creating the executable, you might have to worry about whether the file had been run through a crypting service to get a good result from VirusTotal, but in this case, I think we can trust the author (at least I hope so, lol).

https://www.virustotal.com/

Could someone tell me how to give and withdraw an engine's access to tablebases? An earlier post (page 13) discussed that Stockfish does not require an endgame tablebase, but even with 10 seconds to calculate the poor old girl is making obviously losing moves. I have tablebases loaded and can see the tablebase info, but the engines I'm working with are not using the data.

Nice though it may be to beat Stockfish, I'd like to get in some proper practice.

Yeah, the engine has to be designed to use tablebases. For UCI engines, I think you'd have to go into the Scid vs. PC menus to set the tablebases for engine use. Tools --> Analysis Engines --> Edit --> Configure.

The official Stockfish version can't use tablebases, but I thought it was still pretty good in the endgame. There are two unofficial versions of Stockfish that can use tablebases:

The Syzygy tablebases (I haven't tried these):

http://abrok.eu/stockfish_syzygy/

The Gaviota tablebases:

http://www.open-chess.org/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=2663

Spike 1.4 and Arasan 17.2 can use Nalimov tablebases and Critter 1.6a can use Gaviotta.

Hi Guys

When I analyze and annotate my games everythings works fine when the move control is time, but when it is the depth (other options are the same), the annotation goas crazy. It evaluates moves multiple times, and it leaves some empty, and the scoregraph is holey too. Can someone help me with this one? I like the depth control  based annotation too much :)

The program is probably getting confused when you ask it to combine a depth search with multiple PVs. Try cutting back the engine PV from 5 to 1.

Yeah, it's untested with MultiPV. I should enforce this.

But the depth analysis is not great anyway. With the next release (this month i hope), it should be much better.

Thank you Guys for the quick answres, it solved my problem :) . The depth analysis gave me some strange graph sometimes like this: After move 45, I (black)  was against a lonely king, and I m not a pro so the score 0 can be ok sometimes ( i had only an extra pawn), but +10 is a bit suspicious.

 Anyway, this GUI is amazing

I just downloaded v4.12. Nice software.

However, I have not been able to figure out how to have it analyze a complete game. I mean, of course, go through the PGN and suggest better moves and lines.

How can I have it do this?

I see where it shows lines as I progress through the game. But I am hoping it can just analyze the game and add the lines to the PGN itself.

If you are just loading a standard PGN, I believe that only opens in read only mode. If you have the game in a database or in the clip base, you should be able to start the engine up (or just have it's window up) and chose the icon on the pane that looks like a notepad with pencil and bookmark.

That is the auto-annotate feature. There are quite a few options in there by you can define how to sore moves, when to add variations, and whether or not to analyze any variations in the game.

Thank you Stevenaaus for new version 4.13

Hello, I'm using SCIDvsPC 4.12, excellent program. Does anybody use the "Extra tags" on the "Set Game Information" dialog?  I can't add any extra tags using this procedure:

1. type into the small area left of the Add button

2. press the Add button, which adds what I just typed into the textfield above it.

3. close the dialog by pressing Ok

4. save the edited game and move onto the next game.

5. return to the edited game and find that the tag I just entered is gone.

Thanks for any help,

Gerard

I dont know if this is the problem, but tags have to be in exactly in this format:

tagname "tagdata"

eg

LiveChessVersion "1.4.2"

Scid currently discards any tags not in this format, which is not desirable and should get fixed for the next release.

SOrry, are you saying this as someone involved in its development or an opinion? I'm just curious. Because if you are one of the developers I want to say I really like the software.

Excellent, thanks very much Steven

Gerard

Thanks pfern.

Great app Steven. Now, if only you could tell me you are related to Rowan, I would be absolutely estatic.