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Date: 27 May 2006 01:12:53
From: dajava
Subject: e-mail address of scid?
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The original message was received at Sat, 27 May 2006 11:59:42 +0900
from [10.151.12.143]
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I got this error message for the past several days.
Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
dajava,
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Date: 01 Jun 2006 07:41:18
From: dajava
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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dajava wrote:
> Paolo Casaschi wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
> > >>
> > >> dajava,
> > >>
> > >
> > > You can't. The author has been incommunicado and the software evidently
> > > abandoned since April 2004.
> > >
> >
> > Well, scid author has just updated the webpage http://scid.sf.net
> >
> > -- Paolo
>
> I knew that.
> That was why I sent hime an e-mail.
> But, mine got bounced.
>
> dajava,
I got bounced again.
I will forget it.
And, as a weak and casual chess player,
I will download games from this site
and make my own SCIDbase for my personal use.
http://www.chessgames.com/index.html
dajava,
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Date: 01 Jun 2006 19:11:33
From: Kevin Croxen
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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On 2006-06-01, dajava <[email protected] > wrote:
>
> dajava wrote:
>> Paolo Casaschi wrote:
>> > >>
>> > >> Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
>> > >>
>> > >> dajava,
>> > >>
>> > >
>> > > You can't. The author has been incommunicado and the software evidently
>> > > abandoned since April 2004.
>> > >
>> >
>> > Well, scid author has just updated the webpage http://scid.sf.net
>> >
>> > -- Paolo
>>
>> I knew that.
>> That was why I sent hime an e-mail.
>> But, mine got bounced.
>>
>> dajava,
>
>
> I got bounced again.
>
> I will forget it.
> And, as a weak and casual chess player,
> I will download games from this site
> and make my own SCIDbase for my personal use.
>
> http://www.chessgames.com/index.html
>
>
> dajava,
>
The opening book that Dr Hyatt provides for the chess engine Crafty makes
a pretty decent database in its own right.
ftp://ftp.cis.uab.edu/pub/hyatt/book/enormous.zip
Unzips to a big pgn file which Scid can then import. Then supplement with
current games from whatever source you wish --like twic or NIC.
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Date: 31 May 2006 14:18:56
From: Paolo Casaschi
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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>
> Very odd isn't it? This is the only update that I see on the page:
>
> "News - May 2006
>
> ScidBase CDs for May are being sent over the next week. I'm catching up
> on a backlog of email so please re-send if you sent a message and were
> expecting a reply."
>
>
> If this is Mr. Hudson doing the update then I can only guess that he
> has quite "a backlog of email" to catch up on.
>
> If it is Shane Hudson doing the update to the web page, then I wish you
> well Mr. Hudson.
>
>
> On the side of caution I personally would not donate money in the
> expectation of receiving SCIDbase until I were positive that this is
> Shane Hudson returned.
>
The website has actually been cleaned up from old information.
I hope is some sort of preparation for the future, really hope to see
newer versions of scid.
While you wait for scidbase news, you might get the 3.7 millions database
from www.chesslib.no It's available for free, with some garbage in there,
but lot of fun.
-- Paolo
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Date: 30 May 2006 19:33:30
From: dajava
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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Paolo Casaschi wrote:
> >>
> >> Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
> >>
> >> dajava,
> >>
> >
> > You can't. The author has been incommunicado and the software evidently
> > abandoned since April 2004.
> >
>
> Well, scid author has just updated the webpage http://scid.sf.net
>
> -- Paolo
I knew that.
That was why I sent hime an e-mail.
But, mine got bounced.
dajava,
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Date: 30 May 2006 17:53:48
From: Paolo Casaschi
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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>>
>> Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
>>
>> dajava,
>>
>
> You can't. The author has been incommunicado and the software evidently
> abandoned since April 2004.
>
Well, scid author has just updated the webpage http://scid.sf.net
-- Paolo
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Date: 30 May 2006 19:04:22
From: Kevin Croxen
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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On 2006-05-30, Paolo Casaschi <[email protected] > wrote:
>>>
>>> Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
>>>
>>> dajava,
>>>
>>
>> You can't. The author has been incommunicado and the software evidently
>> abandoned since April 2004.
>>
>
> Well, scid author has just updated the webpage http://scid.sf.net
>
> -- Paolo
Well, who would have guessed it, after more than two years. I hope that
Shane's back in business, and won't disappear into the ether for a
multi-year stretch again any time soon! :)
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Date: 31 May 2006 15:25:33
From: cbseries
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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Kevin Croxen Wrote:
> On 2006-05-30, Paolo Casaschi [email protected] wrote:---
>
> Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
>
> dajava,
> -
>
> You can't. The author has been incommunicado and the softwar
> evidently
> abandoned since April 2004.
> -
>
> Well, scid author has just updated the webpage http://scid.sf.net
>
> -- Paolo-
>
> Well, who would have guessed it, after more than two years. I hope tha
>
> Shane's back in business, and won't disappear into the ether for a
> multi-year stretch again any time soon! :)
Very odd isn't it? This is the only update that I see on the page:
"News - May 2006
ScidBase CDs for May are being sent over the next week. I'm catching u
on a backlog of email so please re-send if you sent a message and wer
expecting a reply."
If this is Mr. Hudson doing the update then I can only guess that h
has quite "a backlog of email" to catch up on.
If it is Shane Hudson doing the update to the web page, then I wish yo
well Mr. Hudson.
On the side of caution I personally would not donate money in th
expectation of receiving SCIDbase until I were positive that this i
Shane Hudson returned
--
cbseries
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Date: 30 May 2006 13:23:08
From: Kevin Croxen
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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On 2006-05-27, dajava <[email protected] > wrote:
> The original message was received at Sat, 27 May 2006 11:59:42 +0900
> from [10.151.12.143]
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
><[email protected]>
> (reason: 550-Callback setup failed
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I got this error message for the past several days.
>
> Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
>
> dajava,
>
You can't. The author has been incommunicado and the software evidently
abandoned since April 2004.
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Date: 12 Jun 2006 16:10:06
From: Alexander Wagner
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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On 2006-05-30, Kevin Croxen <[email protected] > wrote:
Hi!
> On 2006-05-27, dajava <[email protected]> wrote:
>> I got this error message for the past several days.
>> Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
>> dajava,
>
> You can't. The author has been incommunicado and the software evidently
> abandoned since April 2004.
Following the thread here in the newsgroup and also the
chessx development list, I just wanted to say that according
to my information Shane did _NOT_ abandon his software,
especially not on purpose and also tough some posts here
read like that he did (according to my information) not just
grab the money and dissapper.
However if you are searching "just" for some food for his
great program you might want to check out TWIC e.g. where
you can also download older issues:
http://www.chesscenter.com/twic/zips/twic$1g.zip
Just replace $1 by the number you want to retrieve. At least
up till arround 210 (dating 1998) this is possible. How you
can get quite a decent database on any unix system is "left
as an exercise for the student", but think in the direction
of "for()"... ;)
Also www.chesslib.no offered quite a good database but they
seem to restructure their web presence right now. And of
course one should not forget
http://www.pitt.edu/~schach/Archives/
--
Kind regards,
Alexander Wagner
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Date: 12 Jun 2006 23:11:31
From: Simon Waters
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:10:06 +0000, Alexander Wagner wrote:
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> Following the thread here in the newsgroup and also the
> chessx development list, I just wanted to say that according
> to my information Shane did _NOT_ abandon his software
SCID is alive an well and living at http://scid.sourceforge.net/
Shane's last news item was dated May 2006.
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Date: 13 Jun 2006 13:36:46
From: Kevin Croxen
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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On 2006-06-12, Simon Waters <[email protected] > wrote:
> On Mon, 12 Jun 2006 16:10:06 +0000, Alexander Wagner wrote:
>
>>
>> Following the thread here in the newsgroup and also the
>> chessx development list, I just wanted to say that according
>> to my information Shane did _NOT_ abandon his software
>
> SCID is alive an well and living at http://scid.sourceforge.net/
>
> Shane's last news item was dated May 2006.
However, since the last modification to SCID itself was over two years
ago, since other posters have reported that e-mail to Shane's address
continues to bounce, since there is no report of ordered scidbases
actually appearing, and since the only real change to the SCID homepage in
May 2006 is a cleanup and removal of the last news (and development
timetable) dated April _2004_, eager purchasers might do wish to keep
their cash in their pockets until they're sure that this is really Shane
and that he's really back. I hope he is --2 plus years is a long time to
be away. It was in the belief that SCID had been abandoned that projects
like ChessX (i.e. "NewSCID") were started.
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Date: 28 May 2006 17:59:35
From: cbseries
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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dajava Wrote:
> The original message was received at Sat, 27 May 2006 11:59:42 +0900
> from [10.151.12.143]
>
> ----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
> [email protected]
> (reason: 550-Callback setup failed
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> I got this error message for the past several days.
>
> Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
>
> dajava,
If you are talking about ordering SCIDbase from this link (Which by th
way is the only place I know that you can order it from):
http://scid.sourceforge.net/cdrom.html
I have read on the Internet that people in the past have donated mone
in the hopes of receiving SCIDbase and did not receive it. So now i
you say there is some type of error message when you try to donate,
guess you can't even put your money in now.
A long time ago something happened to Shane Hudson to cause him t
become, Missing in Action. From my understanding that is why those wh
did donate in hopes of getting the C.D. did not receive it.
If we are talking about the same donation link then count yoursel
fortunate that your money did not get swallowed up in the black hole
--
cbseries
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Date: 27 May 2006 11:01:01
From: Andreas P. Hofmann
Subject: Re: e-mail address of scid?
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dajava <[email protected] > wrote:
> Then, how can I order SCIDbase?
Hm, on
http://chessx.sourceforge.net/index.php?page=about
you will find (qote) "The project was started after development of Scid
halted and contact with the author was lost." (/quote)
--
Eppur Si Muove!
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