Re: NEW: games/scid

On 12/16/17 22:45, Brian Callahan wrote:
> Hi ports --
>
> Attached is a new port, games/scid. SCID is a chess database
> environment, letting you play games both locally and online, and with
> chess engines, and study games.
>
> ---
> pkg/DESCR:
> SCID (Shane's Chess Information Database) is an application to view,
> edit, and manage collections of chess games. It can interface with
> XBoard engines (such as Crafty and GNU Chess), and UCI engines (e.g.
> Fruit, Rybka and Stockfish). Using Scid, one may play games against
> human opponents (on the Free Internet Chess Server), or computer
> opponents. Database features include a Move Tree with statistics, Player
> Information and Photos, and General Searches for specific endings (e.g.
> pawn vs. rook or rook vs. queen), positions or players. It has a
> database with 1.4 million games (ScidBase).
> ---
>
> It works really well with Stockfish, a powerful chess engine that I
> will send as a follow-up to this, but of course SCID can be used as it
> is.
>
> OK?
>
> ~Brian
>

New tarball attached, with improvements thanks to bentley@

OK?

~Brian