SCID vs PC

Ok, cheers.

We've reissued / changed the 4.24 windows and src downloads just today. Just a couple of minor bugs which i didn't want hanging around until the next release in another couple of years. (Ratings MAX YEAR was broke, which affected the ratings graphs (from ratings.ssp) and probably adding ratings too. And the blunder threshold spinbox had a broken error checker.)

Is there any way to batch edit data in a scid database usnig scidvspc?
I downloaded the TCEC games and they have dates in them but not 'event date' which is a separate field in my database. I can flter all the TCEC games in say 2020, but is there any way I can then edit the event date for all in one go?

This is newer, powerful/destructive! feature, but yes one can batch add EventDates.

Tools->Maintenance->NameEditor

Select EventDate.

Select GamesToEdit->"Filter Games"

Double check you know exactly what you are doing, and read the help topic in case there is something i have overlooked.

Replace *

With YYYY.MM.DD

(eg 2023.05.22)

Thanks!

Hello,

I have two problems with "SCID vs PC" v4.21. Please help me. My OS is Ubuntu.

1. Sounds. I downloaded sounds archive, unpacked it and selected the correct folder. Now when I move the pieces, I get the error message "Could not open default for write.
while executing
"$sound play -blocking 0 -command "incr ::utils:ound::isPlayingSound -1""
(procedure "::utils:ound:laySoundQueue" line 9)
invoked from within
"::utils:ound:laySoundQueue"
("after" script)"

2. Arrows. I don't see the arrows after I move the pieces even though I selected "Moves -> Show variation errors" option. Also I selected "Moves -> Highlight last move -> Show" with no effect.

Thank you!

Can someone explain me what the "tree mask" function does?
Can it be useful for creating opening repertoires?
I like the book merging options of polyglot.
I would like to do something similar directly with pgn files or with Schid files.

See here: https://scidvspc.sourceforge.net/doc/TreeMasks.htm

> 2. Arrows. I don't see the arrows after I move the pieces

No... The board gets overloaded with arrows, dunnit ScidvsPC has no previous move "Arrows". Only variation arrows, and user drawable arrows. The engine mini boards can have move arrows too.

Some new features in subversion recently. The game browser/preview boards now display (non-score related) comments too. And i've added a bulk "add extra tag" feature. Please test with caution... very easy way add/overwrite junk to the game file. Feature still needs some work re progressbars.

Hello! When analyzing a position with an engine, while showing "Engine Info", what is the meaning of "52" in the info: "Depth: 38/52"?

Or the "9" here:

And the "245"? Is it needed to go 245 moves deep to find a mat in 4? To find a mat in 4 is enough to go 4 moves deep, or not?

These are general questions about UCI engines, not specific to ScidvsPC. 245/9 is depth/seldepth

https://github.com/official-stockfish/Stockfish/wiki/Terminology#selective-depth

NB ScidvsPC does not update the history widget if there is no change to the PV line.

I have version 4.24 installed on windows. If I want to install the latest version from the website (4.25) do I neeed to uninstall the current version first?

Or do I install the new one over the top and it will pull in all my databases and settings et? Or will that give me two copies?

Yeah, it's pretty rough. We've never had a proper windows maintainer/coder. Just install the new version in 4.25 and leave the old one as-is until you copy over the new options/whatever.

Thanks.
I have just tried to add a database of 100k games to a reference database of 2mn games.
When I do it, it comes up with an error of "Too many round names"

Is there anyway I can select all my games and delete all the round numbers to get past the error?

Please ignore this. I used the name editor and tried to replace the rounds of 'all' games (using '*' to select 'all games') with '1'. It wouldn't let me use a '*' on all games. So I filtered all the games and applied the same operation to filtered games (which was in reality all games). And that worked

Great. Yeah, some sources misuse round name for a different purpose, making a problem for us.... The default empty compulsory 'Name' is actually '?'.

I have decided not to upgrade to 4.25 for now as I've bespoked so many options (colours etc) and added so many engines I figure it wasn't worth the transition cost of having to reinstall the engines, and redo all the colours etc given 4.24 is stable and working.
But I'll keep an eye out for 4.26 and if that offers some features I'll use, I'll do the upgrade then
It's excellent software. Thanks very much for all your work

I found that copying the Scid vs PC\bin\config folder from the old install to the new one is an easy way to migrate settings.

Hello everyone 
I use SCID vs PC version 4.24 in Windows 11 Home 23H2 64 bit platform. I want all the lines in the Analysis Window to have the same property. Only the first line looks good, while the other lines cannot be read. How can I do this? Thank you in advance.

Update to version 4.25. Maybe it can solve your issue.