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Subject: Re: Arena Engine Priority in Tournaments

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 23:20:55 11/13/03

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On November 13, 2003 at 20:59:37, Ralph Patriquin wrote:

>On November 13, 2003 at 16:39:09, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>On November 13, 2003 at 11:36:28, Dave Kuntzsch wrote:
>>
>>>Yes, I discovered it right after 0.95 came out and I reported it on the Arena
>>>forum. Never got a response. This is keeping me from running Arena tournaments
>>>because performance of other programs I'm running is affected.
>>>
>>>Dave
>>
>>Hi Dave,
>>
>>eng-eng tournament works very good and stabil under Arena.
>>Martin updated his GUI frequently and try to make the engines faster. In the
>>latest two years I got 3 or 4 mails from Martin and he told me that he made
>>Arena faster.
>>
>>In the time of development of new options is for Martin very important to try
>>after new options to make the complete GUI faster and faster. Actual we have a
>>fast GUI but Martin is searching all the time ...
>>
>>You can be sure that he make with all the implemented options and compatibility
>>the best.
>>
>>Look ...
>>Arena used ~ 8-10 MB Ram, Arena is only 700kb big and better if the engine
>>loading time is longer but perfect as the loading time is fast and the engine
>>are in memory!
>>
>>For me runs the GUI in combination with both standard protocols very good.
>>Please note that Martin made from version 0.92 to 0.93 big jumpings in
>>compatibility problems. Since this time Arena works fine.
>>
>>Best
>>Frank
>
>Frank, I don't understand your answer, as you don't address the problem. Yes,
>Arena engine-engine tournaments are pretty stable now, and I don't criticize the
>GUI. It is quite slick in fact. But having a low priority option is pointless if
>the engines switch up and down every move. By the way, it works correctly and
>does NOT switch priority in demo mode. I don't know whether this is a bug or
>intentional, but either way it should be corrected. This is not to nit-pick, I
>love Arena and want it to be the best!
>
>Ralph

Hi Ralph,

yes, yes ... I don't understand one sentence, sorry!

I know that in demo mode Arena have one or two mistakes in older versions. Maybe
Martin have fixed the bugs. Better is to write a short message in our support
forum.

At the moment Martin work on the opening book options ... better the opening
book options are ready. Furthermore, Martin fixed reported bugs and I wait at
the moment of the new version (I belive for ASA).

Best
Frank



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