Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 07:53:23 11/12/03
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On November 12, 2003 at 10:32:56, Peter Berger wrote: >On November 12, 2003 at 10:05:37, Ingo Bauer wrote: > >>Hi >> >>>Winboard is at least 10 years old and a reliable graphical interface thanks to >>>Tim Mann. >> >>But have a lock at the "lock"! > >WinBoard is nice and clean (OK, you better change the board colours to sth else >:) ). > >> >>>Arena is too young and still in beta version. I've noticed a stupid bug in >>>'sound' -> 'click' which has not been removed yet. >> >>Sorry but right at the moment I try to find the comparable functions in WB. >>Could you please point out where to find the sound functions, tournaments, easy >>ICC config, loading and unloading engines during a run ... > >All this can be done in WinBoard, except loading and unloading engines during a >run which is indeed a very useful feature - most of WinBoards functions are easy >if you know how to do it, and sometimes difficult if you don't. > >The discussion is a bit silly as we are discussing personal taste here, it's no >surprise that people disagree. > >WinBoard is still my favourite interface for many purposes. What I like most is >that it's very reliable, and it's unlikely that new bugs will be discovered. > >I found Arena hard to understand and use myself because of the huge amount of >features - things were tough to find for me, and there are still too many >changes for my taste, maybe I am old-fashioned. And when I look for fancy >features, I already own some commercial programs. It is obvious that Arena will >some day replace WinBoard in case there is no further development of WB as Arena >is improving fast. But with this version I appreciated the setup options very >much that allowed to only get the engines :) - I'll probably be a late adapter. > >Greetings, >Peter > >PS: Could you send me an email please, Ingo? It seems I lost your adress. Hi, it's nice to read that the GUI WinBoard which I powered 3 years, 6-8 hours daily have so many fans. So, my work and the work from other persons must be good :-) And of course yes 4 million hits on Frank's Chess Page with all the WinBoard stuff is a good result :-) Like it! But we must not sleeping and go with the future or we talked in 5 years about the same WinBoard version! Have a nice evening :-)) Best Frank have fun!
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