Author: José Carlos
Date: 09:32:01 02/25/04
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On February 25, 2004 at 12:23:43, Bas Hamstra wrote: >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: Hi Bas. 1.02 has a bug in time management. It sometimes get crazy and messes up clocks. I've tried 1.03 and it doesn't seem to happen anymore. José C. >- 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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