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Subject: Re: "Promote Line" feature

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 15:31:16 05/02/02

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On May 02, 2002 at 18:30:27, Lex Loep wrote:

>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


That's good to hear!  Any idea of what release number/date?




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