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Subject: Re: Did you try Arena yet?

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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