Author: Bas Hamstra
Date: 09:23:43 02/25/04
Really I am not on their payroll or in any other way connected. I just waited till it was good enough. And that's now!! It you like to play around with engines and don't know Arena, download 1.02, it has everything you want: - plays automated matches between UCI, WB1 and WB2. See the result-table build-up real-time. Let Arena autodetect if engine likes WB1, WB2 or UCI. - installing new engines? Well fire & forget. Yesterday I downloaded 7 engines, to get them *all* to work in Arena took me 2 mouse-clicks for the whole batch. - Connects to ICS servers, to let engines play there - Has gui-book management now (the one missing feature) - Look and feel is good now, pieces are razorsharp - Processes problem suites - Fisher-, random- and shuffle chess - Copy & paste of position - Free! I am sure I forgot a lot. The only thing I was afraid for is that it's buggy. But no, I played a couple of tourney's without any problem. And played at FICS, to test different instances of my engine, no problems. My wishlist: - Autokibitz of pv's and/or support of a "tellics" command, like in Winboard - Ehm, come on, there must be more. Well, not that it's a big point, but it would be nice to be able to resize each window. Now it uses these "elastics" and if I try to resize the PV window when playing the Internet, it also resizes the board. Arena team thank you for this gift! Toying with it for weeks now, and still enthousiastic! Bas.
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