VisualCQL 6.2
10.11. 2024
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CQL6 (Chess Query Language) is both
- software engine for searching motives in chess databases, especially in
endgame studies
- a special query language for this purpose
CQL engine was developed by Gady Costeff and
Lewis Stiller.
It is copyright (c) 2003-2023 and it is free.
It uses SCID code by Shane Hudson to parse PGN files.
Download and documentation
http://www.gadycosteff.com/cql/
VisualCQL6.2 is a user-friendly Windows extension (IDE) allowing to run CQL engine without
using a command line interface.
It has also several features to accelerate and ease the whole working process.
For example code enhancer (first two characters are enough) and built-in help
system.
You can run scripts and study results directly from VisualCQL environment.
VisualCQL6.2 was developed by Emil Vlasak, integrated PGN Viewer uses free code from Uwe Auerswald.
VisualCQL is
free after e-mail registration on
emil@vlasak.biz.
Anonymous download is no more available.
CQL6.2 is backward compatible with 6.1.
Therefore, you can run old scripts with several new pleasant
filters like
- puremate, modelmate,
idealmate (or stalemate)
- piecename
- typename.
Although the concept of CQL was based on the current position, a new filter of
currentmove is now available.
The new filter try simplifies testing of sub-lines
logic.
Also interesting is the similarposition filter that
allows comparing positions in two different PGN databases.
However, main innovations bring dramatic changes.
Essential filters move and line
are considered deprecated and should be replaced by
dash (--) and path more
powerful ones.
Newly, images are used in preference to keywords
for some filters.
Images are glyphs from Unicode true type fonts.
The authors developed special font CQLChess for this purpose.
The main problem - entering these characters - is solved in VisualCQL6.2 with a
mouse-supported palette (see picture below).
CQL6.2 in action
VisualCQL: Gady
Costeff, Harold van der Heijden, Tim Krabbé, John Beasley, Jaroslav Polášek,
Guy
Haworth, Iuri Akobia, Lewis Stiller, Ron Landsbergen, Cornel
Pacurar,
Piet Peelen, Karl Prendergast, Ernst Wasl,
Arpad Rusz, Charles W.
Browne, Han Bükülmez, David Dahlem, Germàn Antonio De Leon, David Smerdon,
Roland Ott,
Albrecht Schmidt, John Dodgson.
VisualCQL5 Gady Costeff, Lewis Stiller, Harold van der Heijden, Jaroslav Polášek, Michael Sharpe, Carlos Arturo Rangel Collazos, Árpád Rusz.
VisualCQL6 Harold van der Heijden, Jaroslav Polášek, Michael Sharpe, Ulrich Dirr, Klaus D. Mueller, Yves Quintal, James Pelletier, Thomas Kromer, Robert Gamble, Peter Ziegler, Rainer Staudte, Michael Schlosser, Ðỗ Phú Phi, Carlos Pujol, Kenneth Presley, Eric Fraikin, Barak Gonen, Eitvydas Paulauskas, Leonardo Nicolas RONDEROS, Marek Strzêp, Marcos Ezequiel, Martin Kunkel, Dominic Thomas Gobal, Jörn Behrensen, Muhittin Büker, Didier Sauvan, Gerard Labadie.