Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 11:18:16 11/21/00
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On November 20, 2000 at 16:23:42, Shane Hudson wrote: >Hi, > >Version 2.1 of Scid (a free chess database application for Unix and Windows) >is now available. Scid can read PGN and EPD files (and export to PGN, LaTeX >and HTML) and uses its own database format for fast searches. You can use >Scid as a chess database, a PGN file viewer, and an EPD file editor. It can >do many types of search (by position, material, pattern, players, opening, >etc) and many useful database maintenance functions (spellcheck player names, >find and delete twin games, ECO classification, etc). > >New features in 2.1 include Nalimov-format tablebase support and lots of >user interface improvements. > >Scid comes as source code (C++ and Tcl/Tk) for Unix, or precompiled binaries >for Windows. The Scid website is: > > http://members.nbci.com/sghudson/ > >(It used to be "xoom.com" but it seems NBCi acquired xoom ...) > >Cheers, >Shane Hudson >shane@cosc.canterbury.ac.nz Hi Shane, You've done a great job with Scid! I am impressed with the latest version and believe that the next version will surpass even some of the commercial products :) The browsing tree works miracles in teaching openings and the new tablebase support is great too. What I miss is simple clipboard support so that I can just copy-and-paste stuff from the Internet or from some other Windows program. (Yes, I use it under Windows :() Thanks. *** Djordje
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