Author: Alastair Scott
Date: 13:21:50 06/28/03
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On June 28, 2003 at 11:22:48, James T. Walker wrote: >Good luck with Arena. In my opinion, the only thing that makes it tollerable is >the fact that it's free. But I still hardly ever use it. No, I'm not defending >Chessbase. I agree about the GUI. The database functions need fixing. I also >hate the nag boxes when playing auto232 games. It seems that Chessbase missed >the point of automatically playing games between two computers. The idea of >course was to let the computers play games while you are free to do something >else and can check the games later in "quick time". But of course in their >wisdom they decided the best thing to do when something goes wrong is to stop >everything and do nothing. I have also nagged Chessbase about the problems with >the databases but their answer was "have you downloaded the latest update?" Ditto :( I wonder how on earth Chessbase is going to be persuaded that there are serious problems. At least with Arena you know who the programmer is and there are forums where problems can be raised and will be read about. (I don't play engine-engine games so the issues you raise don't matter so much. However, the auto232 problem, like some of the other problems that've been found, seems astonishingly careless; a single person who actually intended to use that facility could've discovered it pre-release). Alastair
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