SCID vs PC

So, after tinkering with my setup for a couple of days, I have more to report.

With the 5-piece syzygy tablebases, everything is working fine, as described above. But I changed my mind and decided I would try the 6-piece set after all. Thing is, when I test the 6-piece setup with the Li***** board linked in the Reddit post I mentioned higher up in the thread, I don't get a draw assessment, I get one of a fraction above +7. As I've said, with the 5-piece set I get a draw. I can't for the life of me figure out why this would be, I've downloaded the 6-piece sets from 2 different sources but the "issue" persists. Thoughts and suggestions, anyone?

TIA o7

I hate to bail out on further help, but downloading 150 GB of files isn't anything I'd look forward to doing. I guess someone else will have to step up. The only suggestion that comes to mind is to ask if you verified the md5 checksums for the 6-piece downloads so that you know that none of the files are corrupted.

EDIT - Eh, I might change my mind and download the 6-piece syzygys, but it'll take dayszzzzz to accomplish...

Heh, no worries, I wasn't expecting that level of dedication tbh   I was just wondering if it could be something someone might know off the top of their head. The md5 check, though, would be a good place to start, thanks for the suggestion o7

I guess I CAN bring up one potential gotcha - The 6-piece syzygy set is ONLY for 6 pieces. In other words, once you download the 6-piece set, you also need to add the 3-4-5 piece set to the same folder as the 6-piece set, otherwise I don't think Stockfish would see that position as a draw (since the position only consists of 5 pieces).

And that's exactly what the problem was XD I was only linking the 6-piece files. I've just linked the 3-4-5-piece set also, and everything is now working fine.

Thanks once again for all your help o7

Is there an option to not show the PGN filename (in red) as shown in the image? There doesn't seem to be a toolbar or other appearance option that controls this. Am I missing something?

You seem to be in  undocked mode, so right click the main board and unselect show-statusbar.

Or if in docked mode , right click the Board tab and unselect the same.

That was it. Thanks.

Hello,
Introducing the 100-games TCEC 2019 superfinal 14 database for Scid vs PC: STOCKFISH 10 vs Leela chess 9.

Caution: large games (draw in 300+ moves) could slow down the GUI.
Would the Scid vs PC developers investigate the performance issue maybe about the curve of the score?

Does anyone know how to apply custom boards and pieces in SCIDvsMac? I'm on OS 10.11.

I can only find these instructions for SCIDvsPC http://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/doc/Board.htm

 but the file structures aren't the same and I can't find the /textures and /pieces folders even after enabling hidden folders view.

I wanted to install pieces from

http://gorgonian.weebly.com/scid-vs-pc.html

and here http://caissabase.co.uk/

Thanks

I figured it out

on mac under [username]/.scidvspc you add the folders /pieces and /textures , drop the files in there and restart scid

Hi all, 

I'm a Mac user and big fan of the SCID platform. I'm wondering if anyone here knows how to make the "Selected" square color transparent (as opposed to a specific color) in the Chessboard/Pieces menu. See screenshot 1 below.

I tried modifying the code in SCID's options.dat file, changing set highcolor {#b0d0e0} to set highcolor {}. Although this successfully removes the "Selected" color, it messes up the menu (see screenshot 2 below).

If anyone knows of an easy way to do this, I'd appreciate your help!

Thanks,

Bill

Scid vs PC-4.20 release candidates are in the file repo

https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/

In this version, you can replace the Selected Square colour with a rectangle by unselecting Options->Moves->ColorSelectedSquare.

Hey guys

I started using Scid vs PC recently because I am starting playing chess again and I am still getting used to its features.

Today I was trying to use lczero in Scid but everytime I run the engine the missing vcruntime140.dll error message comes up. I already installed Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2015 but it did not solve the issue.

Do you have any advice? Thanks

Hi friends,

what a great scid forum this is - thank you all for helping so much with getting things right in Scid vs PC.

I have quite recently started to use it, as chessbase and MEGA kept crashing for reasons I did not get. Now it all works very very neatly and reliable - I am very happy! A friend divided the new MEGA into four loads of pgn games (1.5 m each), which I could then shift into the si4 format at scid. Now the MEGA is scid-workable, and all looks fine! :-)

Maybe one of you could give me an idea about a little problem? I have roamed websites and forums, but could not find the problem discussed anywhere so far. Maybe it is only a little thing? When I create a game list for a certain variation or a player x, then all the games are displayed, but - SCID does not show the actual variations played. Everything else is there, name, rating, tournament, year, Black and White ELO, but no variations. SCID will allow to sort games by variations, and it resorts everything wonderfully - however, the variations are not on display.

Maybe I am just missing a button, or an entry somewhere? Your help will be very appreciated. Thank you!!

Tiger-Oli

No, ScidvsPC does not currently have this feature.

You can ECO classify all games from the maintenance window, then sort by ECO.

To display the ECO , and/or "Opening" in the gamelist, right click one of the column headings and select Add->ECO/Opening

The "tktext" builds remove the performance bottleneck for big games... but they may still be a tiny bit buggy. https://sourceforge.net/projects/scidvspc/files/

Hi Stevenaaus,

thank you for your answer - although it is not what I had hoped for, and it is a real pity that there is no such variation listing, at least I can now stop wondering what to do to acticate and set such a feature up.

It would be a magnificent improvement indeed, however, the way SCID vs PC is now is already a stunning chess software.

Best wishes!

Tiger-Oli

I'm using version 4.18, but I'm assuming 4.20 isn't any different.

1) You can add the database name as a command-line parameter, and it will be loaded when the program starts. You might have to add a path before the database name, for example,

<path to scid>scid.exe ./bases/MyGames

2) For any UCI engine, if you go into the settings for the engine of interest and set the number of variations to 4 (and save the setting change), when you start that engine, it will always start with 4 lines.

You can now open DBs automatically. Use

  Options->Save Bases as Default

Your currently open bases will now automatically open *if* there are no other command line DBs to open. (eg, you double click on a PGN file)