Some days ago Juan Carlos Antón, head of UNED chess school , does give me permission to include tactical positions from the PDFs on the downloads of UNED web, which I consider very educational. The problem is there is no possibility of obtaining original fens. The solution to ease my work, has been to create something like an OCR of image positions, which at this specific case is working very well. Only three concepts are handled : mark, deduce, and learn. First, mark the board, the next step is to deduce, if there are errors the user corrects them manually and asked the program to learn from them. At the beginning there are quite a few errors, but less and less. To mark the Board a transparent window is launched that occupies the desk and lets see the PDF and select a position. It is selected with the mouse by dragging a corner to the other, and it is fitted with the arrow keys. At the end the Enter key is pressed to accept the selected and continue in the program wi...
Given the ability to visually annotate a game and positions is the app script-able? That is if I get Eric Schiller to ramble on (sorry Eric) about my stunning victory where I missed 5 previous 1 move mates, can this be viewed in a playback mode?
ReplyDeleteI'm not sure I understand correctly.
DeleteThe program allows you to see the game again from Utilities-Replay game.
You can set (Options-Configuration-Autosave), to automatically save finished games.
At the end you can also save the game from Utilities.
With or without visual annotations?
DeleteOne of the ideas to this version is to save games in a database other than the pgn format because the possibility to save these visual annotations and analysis if any.
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