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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