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Subject: Re: "Promote Line" feature

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 23:54:53 05/02/02

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On May 02, 2002 at 18:31:16, Roy Eassa wrote:

>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?

I am tempted to put it in the upcoming 5.2 but I don't want to
make any promisses just yet.

Lex




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