Author: Robert Hyatt
Date: 10:00:03 10/28/02
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On October 28, 2002 at 12:56:37, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On October 28, 2002 at 12:43:27, Günther Simon wrote: > >>Why the *cough* about Arena Gian-Carlo? I also had some doubts about in the >>beginning of its development and there were some buggy betas around but IMHO >>it is pretty stable now and BTW you know that _almost all_ buggy games >>under Arena which were posted here were buggy because of Human errors in >>setting up the GUI or their machines (or they simply used outdated betas >>of it when much better versions were already around). >>I would like to test it much more but until now I am satisfied with >>WB most of the time - give the new version another attempt and I am pretty >>sure you'll overthink your above statement. > >You do not have to convince me. Convince the people who have lost >games because of bugs in Arena. > >My choice for an interface is still the Shredder (Classic) >interface which does everything I want it to and is extremely >solid. It's easy enough to operate that even my girlfriend can >do it without mistakes. > >ChessPartner 5.2 is also looking solid now, and I'd consider >it an option as well. > >I would not use any ChessBase interface if only because of >their buggy implementation of UCI. And as far as I know, you >*still* cannot adjust the clocks in that interface. > >I would not use WinBoard because you cannot adjust the clocks, >or see most engine output. That is the _point_ in winboard's favor. No clock adjustment is needed. Just run the event via a local FICS installed on a machine in the tournament hall. Seeing engine output is trivial. "tail -f logfile" works for me just fine.. > >I would not use Arena because in every tournament I go to >I see people get into problems because it has bugs. > >>BTW good luck with further improvements of (Deep) Sjeng :) > >Thank you! > >-- >GCP
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