Author: Francesco Di Tolla
Date: 03:53:38 10/08/03
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On October 07, 2003 at 13:05:09, jefkaan wrote: >according to Vincent Diepeveen in an older message on >a Dutch mailing list about computer chess, the program >Bookbuilder is the biggest failure of all times. I'm sorry about that, some time ago I made a positive review of your program, even wondering how long BookUp could have kept it's high price. You might wonder why not even I have registred it. Well, after using it a bit I had the feeling it was an unfinished work. I think that the inteface was so-so in series 3 and at some point there were even some resolution issues: on my screen I could not even have a decent board to look at. Now the new version I just donwloaded is much better in terms of itnterface. I has one big bug at least: when you assign an evaluation sy +/= to white position after a given move stepping back/forward by half move the evaluation changes sign (graphically) to =/+. I agree that some prorgams consider the score relative to the side you look at. But signs like +/= and =/+ are ususally absolute, and indicate a slightly better position for white and black respectively. Other wanted features are: - I would prefer to see the list of recommeded moves ordered from best to worst - navigation button for stepping forth and back - when you press the arrows the program should move in the movelist by half-moves and not reset the game input - I would also love to see also a feature (to be eanbled or disabled with a flag) to autoadd moves to the tree when the user inputs new moves regards Franz
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