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Scid vs. PC help
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 2:46 pm
by Niall Doran
Hi all.
I'm using version 4.16, I have a small database of games that I want to filter in the following way:
I want to select all my games as White and then use the Tree function to look through my openings to see which ones I do well/poorly against.
So I open the game database, go to Search->General and select my games as White, which selects roughly half my games. When I click on the Tree function however, it shows the statistics for moves in all the games, and not just ones I played with White.
Can anyone help me with this?
Also if I'm struggling with something this basic, should I use another program, as a lot of comments about the program say that it's not very user-friendly?
Re: Scid vs. PC help
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:36 pm
by MSoszynski
Niall,
First of all, I recommend Scid
http://scid.sourceforge.net/ over the program you mention. They are similar, but Scid
sans phrase is superior, in my opinion.
Now, I will tell you a way to achieve what you want though it might not be the way you wanted to do it.
Do your search, but then (in Scid)...
Database -> Export All Filter Games -> Export Filter to PGN File
Thus you create a file of (say) me-as-white.pgn whence you can...
Open base as tree
This may seem long-winded, but it soon becomes a routine matter of a few mouse clicks. Of course you don't need Export if you haven't added games since.
I hope that's helpful. For all I know there may be an even quicker way in Scid.
Re: Scid vs. PC help
Posted: Thu Aug 25, 2016 5:41 pm
by MartinCarpenter
Think there might be.
Open up the database in question, find the player report option in whichever drop down menu it is in, select you/white, generate report and gaze at the detailed analysis
Is nice.
You might also get the tree menu to change if you explicitly use the restrict option on the filter, I'm not sure how that behaves.
Re: Scid vs. PC help
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 2:44 pm
by Niall Doran
Thanks for the help MSoszynski and Martin!
You were right about me not wanting to do it that way, I'd already thought of doing it that way but I thought there might be something more efficient.
Regarding the report, it seems very basic. Although I've just learned that I've a 57% score with White and only 41% with Black, so even that's a useful bit of info!
Re: Scid vs. PC help
Posted: Fri Aug 26, 2016 6:44 pm
by MartinCarpenter
It takes a bit of reading but I the report should give most frequent openings, score in those, shortest/longest games etc. Maybe I'm thinking of another sort of report it can do
Re: Scid vs. PC help
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 9:38 pm
by Brian Towers
Niall Doran wrote:Although I've just learned that I've a 57% score with White and only 41% with Black, so even that's a useful bit of info!
Maybe, maybe not.
Do you also record your opponents' ratings/gradings? And if so will the program also give your opponents' average gradings with white and black?
Re: Scid vs. PC help
Posted: Sat Sep 03, 2016 10:05 pm
by MartinCarpenter
Yes, although not remotely well with BCFs on my version at least. Think it must be basically locked to FIDE.
Lots of info mind - 5 oldest games, 5 newest games, most frequent opponents (+ score vs the same), result lengths (number of moves) and frequencies, highest average rating games, then a theory table at the end.
This is a player report, but did require me to filter down to just my games with white/black to make it work. Which is odd. All using Scid 4.5.1. Opening reports seem to be quite similar.