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| Monday, February 20th, 2012 | | 6:35 pm |
Olive 0.12.2.4b
Новая версия с новыми возможностями и новыми ошибками. Добавлены две очень полезные функции: - Файл -> Сохранить шаблон. Текущая запись будет использоваться в качестве шаблона для всех новых записей. Очень удобно, когда нужно добавить несколько задач из одного журнала или одного автора и т.д. - Контекстное меню у списка задач. Можно выбрать несколько задач из списка (Ctrl или Shift + левая кнопка мыши, как в проводнике) и копировать, вырезать, вставлять, сохранять в отдельный файл. Можно запустить две копии olive (почему нет) и копировать из одной в другую (так можно, например, объединять коллекции). Можно копировать и вставлять в текстовый файл, электронное письмо, комментарий в ЖЖ. Можно копировать из текстового файла, электронного письма, комментария в ЖЖ, окна редактирования в yacpdb и вставлять в olive. Идея понятна. Еще добавлено: - Импорт из файлов Fancy. Все сказочные фигуры заменяются на болванов (DU). Если мне кто раcскажет, как в Fancy кодируются сказочные фигуры, буду благодарен. Огромное спасибо А.Булавке, который мне все рассказал. - При импорте CCV и PBM можно указать кодировку файла. - В "Сделать компактнее" можно выбрать нотацию для фигур (например, русскую). --- New version with new features and new bugs. Two very useful features added: - File -> Save as template. The current entry will be used as a template for all new entries. This is very handy when you need to add several problems from one magazine or of one author etc. - Context menu for entries list. You can select several entries from the list (Ctrl or Shift + left mouse button, just as in windows explorer) and copy, cut, paste, save to separate file. You can launch two instances of olive (why not) and copy from one to another (this way you can merge collections for example). You can copy and paste to text file, email, LiveJournal comment. You can copy from text file, email, LiveJournal comment, yacpdb edit form and paste to olive. You got the idea. Also added: - Import from Fancy files. All fairy pieces become dummies (DU). I would be most appreciative if anybody tells me how does Fancy encodes fairy pieces. Huge thanks to A.Bulavka, who explained it to me. - You can specify character encoding when importing CCV and PBM. - "Make more compact" now allows to choose different notation for the pieces (eg Deutch). | | Monday, February 13th, 2012 | | 8:45 pm |
Release early, release often
olive 0.12.2.3b- Исправлена ошибка в логике "Вывод popeye" -> "Сделать компактнее" - Рамки вокруг диаграмм в PDF - Иконки показываются корректно в Windows 7 - bug fixed: in "Popeye output" -> "Make more compact" logic - Diagram frames in PDF - Icons in Windows 7 | | Saturday, February 11th, 2012 | | 8:34 pm |
updates
1. Обновление yacpdb: результаты поиска, если их не больше 1000 можно скачать как .olv файл и потом попытаться открыть из olive (не пробуйте выбирать при загрузке "Открыть с помощью ... olive.exe" это пока не работает) 2. Новая версия oliveДобавлено:
- Экспорт в PDF.
- Препроцессинг листинга Popeye, чтобы он занимал меньше места по вертикали (критично для PDF). Работает так: после того как Popeye финишировал, в контестном меню над его листингом появляется пункт "Сделать компактнее". Работает (в теории) для ортодоксальных задач и некоторых сказочных.
- Мелочи.
Это все еще бета версия, все сырое, может не работать и т.д. --- 1. yacpdb update: search results, if there's no more than a 1000 of them, can be downloaded as a .olv file, which, with some luck, may then be opened from olive (don't try to choose "Open with ... olive.exe" this is not working yet) 2. New version of oliveAdded:
- PDF exporting facilities.
- Popeye output preprocessing to save vertical space (matters for PDF). This is how it works: upon Popeye having had finished, the option called "Make more compact" is added to the output window context menu. This works (in theory) for orthodox problems and limited subset of fairy problems.
- Small fixes.
This is still a beta, some things may not work, etc. | | Sunday, February 5th, 2012 | | 3:52 pm |
Olive
Предлагаю всем желающим ознакомиться с новым проектиком, называется olive. Это что-то вроде гибрида Fancy, Problemist и yacpdb, но основная идея в том, чтобы в дальнейшем использовать эту программу в качестве основы для реализации разных идей.  Исходники (и бинарники): http://code.google.com/p/olive-gui/Установки, как таковой, нет. Самораспаковывающийся архив создаст папку, в ней надо запускать olive.exe все должно работать. Тестировалось только под Windows 7, если будут проблемы - сообщайте. | | Thursday, December 15th, 2011 | | 4:08 pm |
Registration
With the latest update users are required to create accounts and log in in order to make edits. The reasoning for introducing this feature is quite simple: sometimes we just need to know how to contact a person who made particular changes. Please provide you full real name in latin characters. Для редактирования записей в базе данных теперь обязательно надо зарегистрироваться и входить на сайт под своим именем. Причина этого нововведения проста: иногда необходимо знать как связаться с автором определенных правок. Пожалуйста при регистрации вводите свое настоящее имя и фамилию латинскими буквами. | | Friday, October 28th, 2011 | | 3:24 pm |
New matrix search algorithm and options
If you experience any strange behaviour with the database, try to refresh the page with the F5 key.From now on the black king is not required to perform the matrix search. Virtually any configuration is possible though you should keep in mind that certain patterns may be much slower than other. Additionally you may specify some options for matrix search by clicking 'Matrix' link above the diagram. What i had in mind is four basic scenarios, but it is perfectly fine if you find some other use. 1. (Default) All transforms + Vertical shifts (ON) + Horizontal shifts (ON) Good old search for all possible rotations, mirroring and translations of the pattern. 2. Only vertical mirror + Vertical shifts (ON) + Horizontal shifts (ON) Useful if your pattern contains pawns and you know which direction they should be facing. This combination will allow you to filter out irrelevant matches. Also such queries run faster. 3. Vertical shifts (OFF) + Horizontal shifts (ON) Same as 2. but allows you to fix certain pawns on the 2nd or 7th rank (if you know they should doublestep or promote). 4. Vertical shifts (OFF) + Horizontal shifts (OFF) Use this when you know exact placements of certain pieces (usually two kings from the award or article). Please report bugs, it is quite likely that they are there. | | Thursday, October 20th, 2011 | | 12:13 pm |
| | Wednesday, June 15th, 2011 | | 12:04 am |
The old address of the database (the one that started with "dt") is no longer working. Please use http://www.yacpdb.org/Sorry for any inconvenience caused. | | Tuesday, June 14th, 2011 | | 6:01 pm |
I made a small tweak requested by many: Now YAML in the 'Add problem' screen is pre-filled with the values from the search form (author, source, date and stipulation). | | Wednesday, November 3rd, 2010 | | 10:44 am |
| | Friday, March 5th, 2010 | | 2:30 pm |
Alexandr Bulavka from Belarus sent me the collection of his own published problems, thank you very much. Everybody is welcome to enjoy these problems by searching for author:"Булавка, Александр Геннадьевич" | | Wednesday, February 24th, 2010 | | 3:46 pm |
Anatoly Mukoseev from Tver (Russia) has sent me the legacy of the late Tver composer Nikolay Kosolapov. Thank you, Anatoly. | | Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 | | 4:45 pm |
I've added about 1600 new problems to the database from new files sent by Gabriel Török and Eduardo Sadier. Thanks! | | Thursday, January 28th, 2010 | | 3:36 pm |
| | Tuesday, January 12th, 2010 | | 10:35 am |
StrateGems First Miniature Tourney
I find the suggested theme quite challenging: «StrateGems» is announcing its First Miniature Tourney for orthodox two movers (#2). Depending on the success of the tourney, we hope to make it a yearly event. Theme: In the post-key play, the same Black unit will be captured by at least three different White units. These examples show that the affected Black unit can be stationary or mobile. Please send your entries to the judge Robert Lincoln, 2 Cambridge Ct., Little Egg Harbor, NJ 08087, USA or by email: linker91@@@hotmail.com. Closing date is October 31st 2010. Prizes in books from the Library of «StrateGems». Obviously (and unfortunately) thematic examples were missing from the announcement in the Kudesnik issue as well as on the Jan Goja's site. I have emailed Mr.Lincoln my original problem and asked if he could provide the missing samples. He got back to me very promptly:
Lincoln, Robert A.
Melnichuk-JT, 2007
1. Qd6! ~ 2. Rgxf4#
1. ... Kxf3 2. Qxf4#
1. ... Kf5 2. Rfxf4#
1. ... Be5 2. Qd3#
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Lincoln, Robert A.
Original (for StrateGems, i believe)
1. Se4! ~ 2. Sf2#
1. ... Bxg3 2. Qxg3#
1. ... Bg5 2. Rxg5#
1. ... Bf6+ 2. Sxf6#
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Having spent some time composing my own problem, i think the second example shows a very clever device. | | Tuesday, December 22nd, 2009 | | 2:16 pm |
Little less than one thousand twomovers were imported from the updated Eduardo Sadier's collection. This time i used a different approach and filtered out not only the exact matches, but also "very similar" diagrams. This could possibly lead to some new problems not been imported, but i have manually checked ten such problems (at random) and they all were mis-entered versions of the problems already present in yacpdb. Composer names were imported "as is", they'll be auto-replaced by canonical spellings as a part of the periodical routine. | | Wednesday, December 16th, 2009 | | 4:05 pm |
Unification of the composers names
 Some updates finally. Many names in the database were updated in accordance to the Composers Names In Various Alphabets wiki (ComposersNames). About 170000 problems, that many. This was an automated process, syncing with the ComposersNames will be held periodically in the future, once a week or so. The ultimate goal is to have all the names from yacpdb in the ComposersNames. So i want to encourage everybody to contribute to the ComposersNames. Here are the changes related to this update: 1) Names that come from the ComposersNames are called "canonical representations". Canonical representations can only be changed to other canonical representations. E.g. you can change "Ebben, Jacobus J." to "Loyd, Samuel", but you can't change it to "Ebben, Jacobus Johannes". However, if you make this change in ComposersNames, all such entries in yacpdb will eventually get updated automatically. Non-canonical names can be edited as always. 2) Non-canonical names are grayed out 3) New auto-suggest tool (credits go to the Brand Spanking New) works both with Latin and Cyrillic input (see image), but it suggests canonical names only. You can search for the non-canonical names exactly as you have used to. | | Thursday, October 8th, 2009 | | 5:21 pm |
Mihail Croitor has kindly provided me with the PGN sources of Chess Endgame Study Database. These entries include a link to Mihail's site where they can be played online via PGN Live, a cool PGN viewer by Milan Velimirović. | | Wednesday, September 23rd, 2009 | | 1:41 pm |
On duplicate entries in yacpdb
As of today there are 262720 entries and 261847 unique positions (FEN-lines) in the database. Here's the list of duplicates, i'll keep it updated as these entries will eventually be merged/deleted. Of course these are not the only duplicates, there are problems that have an entry for each twin, no idea how to find them though. Any help is welcome, as usual. | | 1:40 pm |
Anders Thulin has invited me to use his digitized collection of chess problems from books in public domain that are available on his site. I did (~900 new diagrams). |
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