Author: Djordje Vidanovic
Date: 09:39:04 11/13/03
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On November 12, 2003 at 16:06:28, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On November 12, 2003 at 10:32:56, Peter Berger wrote: > >>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. > >That is more or less my opinion as well. WinBoard isn't as fully featured as >Arena and the gap is widening by the hour. However, it is very trustworthy. The >most important feature of a GUI - in my view - is reliability. It takes a long >time for an old dog like myself to trust a different option like Arena. My early >experiences didn't really help. Too many bugs made simple use cumbersome and >timeconsuming. The same can be said about the abundance of features. So unless >you're ready to devote a lot of time on checking and double checking, it >outgrows the gradual increase of reliability experienced by the user. At least >this user :-). > >I'm quite sure that most intents and purposes Arena is a reliable product and I >do use it for analysis. For everything else there's no substitute for WinBoard >as far as I'm concerned. Features aren't everything. Reliability and trust is >IMHO. > >Regards, >Mogens Everything else you said aside, Mogens, but you actually said that you considered yourself "an old dog"? Come on, give me a break? A young Jyllander like yourself? And Jyllanders are known to easily live just about forever? Come on, please. Djordje
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