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Subject: Re: Did you try Arena yet?

Author: Bas Hamstra

Date: 10:09:14 02/25/04

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Hi Jose,

Thanks for the tip, though I have not seen the bug yet. Nonetheless, I am
downloading 1.03 now.

Bas.



On February 25, 2004 at 12:32:01, José Carlos wrote:

>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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