Scid vs. PC 4.14

Scid vs. PC is a continuation of Shane's Chess Information Database, which provides a chess toolkit, move database, analysis tools, various chess AI engine bindings or to online servers. It remains database-compatible but adds many usability and feature enhancements, such as a tournament game mode, an overhauled GUI, new gamelists, rating graphs, other analysis engines, and drag and drop support on all platforms.

Tags c tcl tk game chess chess-engine database online-player
License GNU GPL
State stable

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4.1407 Apr 2015 06:45 minor feature: 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). Enable piece dragging , Flip the setup board if main is flipped. 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. 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. Automatically adjudicate in simple cases of insufficient material. Make the window more ergonomic, Comments now have their own line, and move some infos to the Statusbar, Add/Remove Line features, Clicking on Book Tuning next move (in yellow) moves forward. Remove the errant rounding up of +10 to +11 in y-axis, and raise border over graph bars, Add backGround colour to graphs, 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, Document how to alter the Game List fields, Update OS X build notes. 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* vari
4.1327 Oct 2014 03:45 major feature: Analysis Engine: exclude move(s) feature. Mouse-hover shows excluded moves (UCI only). Analysis Engine: button to pop-up unrevealed buttons, and redo a few icons. Maintenance: Bulk strip Comments/Variations. Depth-based Engine Annotation improvements. Tweaked key bindings (including FilterReset Control-r and GameSave Control-s). Improved Background Colour feature. Add 'Find' entry boxes to more windows (including spelling corrections) , and widget can now use regular expressions. Splash widget console now has a simple command history (up-arrow). Better Repair Base feature (from Gregor). Include Gregors fast file opening with the windows 32-bit binary. Bind Control-Wheel to alter fixed font size (in some windows). New Russian translation (from Sergey Nikolaevich Koyankin) and updated German one (from surrim). Enforce all tags (eg Event names, etc) to be less than 256 chars. Tweak Scid's Linux installer is to properly allow custom SHAREDIR. Windows drag and drop file open wasn't being init properly. Better handle language translations/encoding. Crosstable: bump max-player limit, tweak menus and bind right-click to menu, fix occasional allignment bug, and dont' automatically update (fixing busy cursor bug). Bump Opening Table limits, and minor bug-fixes. New (Skak) Latex export-games feature (author Mark Dennehy). Update Xfcc to handle secure connections (thanks to Andrew Hunt). Fix minor memory leaks, and dont slow game file compaction (we now reset filter). Bestgames has a game load menu instead of 3 buttons. Refine docked window drag and drop. Many minor OS X tweaks. Trim whitespace from name fields in game save dialog. Add whitespace corrections to spelling.ssp, and also tweak Event spelling corrections. Tooltips for the obscure buttons in main buttonbar. Analysis add move as 'New Mainline' was broke. Always get confirmation for sorting via gamelist. Enforce illegalilty of saving Event Date without Game Date. Phalanx updates and minor tacgame, sergame fixes. Make a