Scid Help: Opening Reports

# Opening Reports

Scid can produce an opening report that displays interesting facts about an opening position. To generate an opening report, first make sure the displayed position is the one you want a report for, then select Opening Report from the Tools menu.

The Opening Report window displays the results of the report Scid generated. The File menu has commands to save the report to a file in plain text, HTML or LaTeX format.

The first sections of the report present information on the games that reach the report position, and moves played from the position. You can see if the opening is becoming more popular, if it has many short draws, and what move orders (transpositions) are used to reach it.

The final and largest part of the report is the theory table. When saving the report to a file, you can choose to save just the theory table, a compact report without the theory table, or the whole report.

Almost all the report sections can be turned on or off or adjusted in the opening report options, so you can customize a report to only show the information that interests you.

Most items of information in the report window that are shown in color, invoke some action when selected with the left mouse button. For example, you can click on a game reference to load that game, or click on a positional theme to set the filter to contain only the report games where that theme occurred.

### Limits

There is a limit of 2000 games for most data generated by the report, so if the report position occurs in more than 2000 games, some results may be slightly incorrect.

Also, there is a limit of 500 games for the theory table. If the report position occurs in more than 500 games, only the 500 games with the highest average Elo rating are used to generate the theory table. You can adjust the number of games used to generate the theory table in the Opening Report options.

### LaTeX preview

The Preview Latex button in the bottom left corner of the report window (not available in Windows versions) saves the report as a temporary LaTeX-format file, runs latex and dvips/ on it, and then executes ghostview to display the results. This will only work if you have latex, dvips, ghostview and all the necessary latex packages installed on your computer; see the Using LaTeX with Scid help page.

(Updated: Scid 3.3, April 2002)

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