scid for Debian --------------- * 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 It was outdated anyway.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 Sat, 01 Dec 2007 09:51:08 +0100 * Alioth The Debian package for Scid has its own CVS repository on Alioth: see . * 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 Sun, 21 Dec 2003 18:43:13 -0800