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Subject: Re: A word in praise of Scid v1.0

Author: Andrew Williams

Date: 03:59:38 01/12/00

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On January 11, 2000 at 19:15:42, Vincent Diepeveen wrote:

>On January 11, 2000 at 17:50:45, Peter McKenzie wrote:
>
>>On January 11, 2000 at 16:47:18, Andrew Williams wrote:
>>
>>>I've been playing around with Scid v1.0, which is a chess database program for
>>>Linux and other flavours of Unix. This new version (released Dec 30 1999) seems
>>>to be absolutely excellent with all sorts of nice features. Highly recommended.
>>>
>>>The home page for Scid is -->   http://members.xoom.com/sghudson/
>>
>>A piece of trivia, the author of Scid (Shane Hudson) is an old friend of mine
>>from University.  I believe I started programming LambChop during our last year
>>of study together - but he had the good sense not to start his database during
>>that very intense year!
>>
>>Shane, if you are listening - good to hear you're doing some good stuff!  Hope
>>its not slowing down your phd too much :-)
>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Andrew Williams
>
>Perhaps an idea for your friend to add searching for a part of a name,
>quite a basic feature.
>
>If you look for 'DIEP', then i don't find a single game of mine.
>If you look for 'diepeveen' then forget it too. Hardly games
>I need to look for 'Diepeveen', 'diepeveen','Diepenveen' and 'diepenveen'
>and 'diepveen' and DIEPEVEEN and DIEPENVEEN.
>
>Despite that i still award it the price: "Best linux chess database".
>
>Vincent

I'm not sure I understand this. The header searches seem to be case-sensitive,
but I can search for (eg) "urpin" and find all the games JudgeTurpin has played
against PostModernist.

Andrew




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