SCID vs PC

Thanks Pawnpatrol.

It appears you can open as many of these as you like.

I recently moved from Scid to Scid vs PC because I'm willing to start working more with a database, so I thought the updated version would be better.

The problem is that Scid vs PC includes in Annotation the "Cut off threshold" option, which has a maximum of 10. If I put 50, it will lower itself to 10. This causes to stop annotating variations for very big blunders that I commit because I'm a newbie. And most importantly, doesn't annotate obvious checkmates I miss because they are above the threshold.

Is there any way to disable this threshold cap, or at list set it very high so I don't miss the variations of obvious checkmates?

(I attach a picture as an example. It didn't annotate a checkmate a missed repeatedly just because of the threshold cap!)

Good work!!

> Is there any way to disable this threshold cap, or at list set it very high so I don't miss the variations of obvious checkmates?

Yah... this is something that is missing. Maybe i will code it, but this feature is pretty d*** complicated already.

Oh, I didn't realize you were in this thread. Thanks for your reply!

I think that feature will help mostly lower level players, maybe some medium level players too.

Meanwhile I run the analysis configured: Add variations > All movements. It's messier and I have to check the score of each variation to see whether it's above the threshold or not, but at least I get all annotations.

Thanks for all your effort with this software.

@stevenaaus: AppPublisherURL in Scid vs PC.iss has 2 http://

Cheers. Too late for this release though. I have ScidvsPC 4.14 release candidates up at SF....  If there is no major bugs, these will be the releases. Windows 64 bit should be there in a day or two

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/windows/Scid%20vs%20PC-4.14.exe/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/source/scid_vs_pc-4.14.tgz/download

http://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/mac/ScidvsMac-4.14.dmg/download

Changelog:
 
 Tree Mask 
    Mask auto-load option
    Automatically add move to mask instead of showing silly error message
    Holding Control while opening the Mask context menu (marker/nags/color) adds a marker to the whole line (etc)
    Make Mask moves easier to see, and tweak menus
 
 Board Setup 
    Enable piece dragging
    Flip the setup board if main is flipped
    Make 'Clear Setup board' have Kings
 
 Searches 
    Add End-Position-Only option to Material Search
    Knight+Bishop sanity check was wrong, and we werent saving Knight+Bishop joint totals in saved searches
    Tweak the other-base combobox in Board Search
 
 Fics 
    Double clicking an observed game makes it your primary game (number is shown as bold)
    Refine Offer Graph layout (most games are short), and add a close button (previously was only escape key)
    New 'Censor' button (+censor opponent)
    Add a show/hide buttons feature
    Control+Wheelmouse alters Fics console font size
    Only save games a few moves long
 
 Computer Tournament 
    Automatically adjudicate in simple cases of insufficient material
    Make the window more ergonomic
    Fix ponder not working with non-standard starts
 
 Game Information 
    Comments now have their own line, and move some infos to the Statusbar
    When Gameinfo is hidden, make the mini Player Names clickable
 
 Book Tuning 
    Add/Remove Line features
    Clicking on Book Tuning next move (in yellow) moves forward
    Bugfix - truncate the polyglot books when using Remove Move
 
 Score Graph 
    Remove the errant rounding up of +10 to +11 in y-axis, and raise border over graph bars
    Add backGround colour to graphs
    Middle button pops up the game position for any move
 
 Other 
    New Portuguese translation from R. Silva (martinus at FICS)
    Update to Phalanx XXIV. The Tactical Game feature is a proper challenge now
    Place Best Games window beside Tree window (in docking mode)
    Playerinfo: still show Bio info (if available) when there are no games in database
    Automatically add the final move if adding a var at game end with the AddVar button
    Minor improvements for html/html+javascript Game Exports
    Set filter to deleted games prior to compacting game file
 
 Documentation 
    Document how to alter the Game List fields
    Update OS X build notes
    Update chess960 patch (no code changes), and document known issues
 
 General Bug-fixes 
    Xboard engine annotation was ignoring 'Use Book'
    Correspondence chess tls/encryption bugfix (Alexander)
    Properly flip comment editor board (if applicable) and other tweaks
    'Find Best Move' feature was broke
    When saving game, throw error for badly formed extra tags (instead of silently discarding)
    When adding a var to end of game, make sure to auto enter *this* variation, in case of vars already existing
    Exit trial mode when changing bases
    Gamelist sort confirmation column-name was not translated
    Change move overwrite behaviour of eco browser and Opening Table moves
    Remove superfluous padding from OS X aqua theme

Note:  I added this tip to my Helpful Tips page.  It's the first new tip I've added in a long, long time.

Can chess fonts be imported into SCID/SCID vs. PC? (e.g., ftp://ftp.tex.ac.uk/pub/tex/macros/latex2e/contrib/chessfss/chessfonts_gallery.pdf) I've noticed that the chess fonts installed natively on SCID vs PC become pixelated past a certain point.

Yes.  They need to be sized properly, converted to base64 text, and inserted into the proper place in the scid.gui file.  You can get some pre-made at http://gorgonian.weebly.com, click downloads, Scid vs. PC or at Ed Collins' website.

pawpatrol is correct.

To add to his answer, beginning on page 7 of this thread, DunnoItAll posts images of several different piece fonts to download.  Somewhere soon after this he describes his method of creating them.

As I recall, with the latest version of Scid vs PC, you can save the new piece font into a folder called PIECES from the BIN folder.  Upon startup, the program will look for this folder and load any new piece fonts it finds.  That's it.

You can also edit the scid.gui file (carefully) and remove the piece fonts you don't use and/or don't care for.  (This is what I've done.  In fact I've removed all of them.  My PIECES folder contains the fourteen fonts I use.  I don't have any fonts in the gui file.)

And yes, my download page offers nine new piece fonts, and I think DunnoItAll created all of them.  He did a great job.

For reference, DunnoItAll is my old chess.com account (closed a while back for various reasons).  Also, yeah, I totally forgot you just put them in the pieces sub-folder now.  Oops.

Ah, didn't realize you changed handles!

Hi, does anyone know how to remove a game from a database. 

I listed the games and tried to "remove", "delete" a game from game list, but there is no save the database option in the program. And after closing database when i open it, the game is still in the database. 

Do i miss something?

Tools-Maintenance-Compact Database

But that hasn't worked for me on the last couple of versions I've tried. Had to jump back to SCID for that. I think I may be a version behind though.

Weird.  Some error message?

Nope, games just don't delete. Not a huge deal as I don't have that many games that I do it with; except in one of my databases that have a lot of duplicates.

Will have to install the newest version soon and test again.

And I'm not fully postitive I have tried in the version I'm on now. I just know that last time I tried it didn't work.

Just installed Scid vs PC 4.14 - currently on Windows 8.

I am very pleased with this powerfull program but I have some bugs to work out. When the program starts, the 'Tip of the Day' and the 'Welcome to Scid' windows are hidden and docked on my taks bar. The only way I can view them is if I click Maximize from the Taskbar.