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Subject: Re: "Promote Line" feature

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 15:30:27 05/02/02

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On May 02, 2002 at 16:27:04, Roy Eassa wrote:

>
>The Chessbase programs (Fritz & Junior are the ones I have) have a key feature
>that I haven't seen elsewhere: "Promote Line".
>
>When you have a game score with variations and sub-variations, it seems
>essential to be able to promote a sub-variation to a variation and even a
>variation to the main line.  (Doing this demotes the one you replaced.)
>
>Is this feature available in any other chess GUI for Windows? Mac? Pocket PC?
>Palm?
>
>(Does anybody else even agree that this is a KEY feature to have??)
>
>I don't find myself ever using the Chess Partner or Classic Shredder interfaces
>simply because they lack this feature (I also like being able to expand and
>contract the number of variations that show up in parallel).
>
>Couldn't other GUIs' programmers add this one feature without too much
>difficulty?

I have it on my list for ChessPartner

Lex





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