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* The latest spell check files, player data and photo library
You can maintain your collected chess databases with player information
and display photos of international players in scid. This data can be
found at: http://scid.sourceforge.net/download.html
* Opening book support
Scid has support for opening books, which are made with the winboard/UCI
polyglot protocol adaptor. The binary books that are usually shipped with
the sources of scid had to be removed from debian because of policy reasons.
You can make some yourself with some hints from www.linuxchess.org or take
Marc Lacrosses performance.bin and varied.bin from:
http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/html/download.htm
* Additional eco files
These files are already installed for french and spanish as:
/usr/share/scid/data/scid-esp.eco and scid_fr.eco
* The former html documentation
This documentation is now available through the internal TCL/TK help
browser and was removed by upstream developers. It was outdated anyway.
-- Oliver Korff <ok@xynyx.de> Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:51:08 +0100
* Alioth
The Debian package for Scid has its own CVS repository on Alioth: see
<http://alioth.debian.org/projects/pkg-scid>.
* Zlib compression
The upstream source of Scid includes the zlib compression library. Since
that is packaged separately in Debian, this version of Scid does not
use the included zlib. Instead, it links to the version of the zlib
compression library that is already present. It has been removed from
the .orig.tar.gz-file.
* Endgame tablebases
Scid can be compiled with support for endgame tablebases. The tablebase
routines used in Scid are, however, not freely distributed in the sense
dictated by Debian guidelines. Therefore, tablebase support is not
present in the Debian version of Scid. In fact, the source of the
tablebase routines has even been removed from the .orig.tar.gz-file.
* LaTeX
If you want to use Scid's LaTeX exporting capabilities, you need
Piet Tutelaers' chess package. In Debian, this is available as
the packages texlive-games.
-- Peter van Rossum <petervr@debian.org> Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:43:13 -0800
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