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I got this error message for the past several days.

Then, how can I order SCIDbase?

dajava,

On 2006-05-27, dajava wrote:
The original message was received at Sat, 27 May 2006 11:59:42 +0900
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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.

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

On 2006-05-30, 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

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!

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

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,

On 2006-06-01, dajava 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.

On 2006-05-30, Kevin Croxen wrote:

Hi!

On 2006-05-27, dajava 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

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.

On 2006-06-12, Simon Waters 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.