Author: Harald Faber
Date: 07:54:01 10/17/04
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On October 16, 2004 at 16:31:12, Robert Pawlak wrote: >On October 16, 2004 at 15:58:50, Oreopoulos Kostas wrote: > >>User friendly is very subjective. >>I really like CA and dont think its unfriendly. > >I would have to agree here. > >While CA has the reputation of being harder to use, I think a large part of the >perception is caused by the fact that it simply works differently from CB. > >Bob I do not think so. Very often one desires a function and gets lost in all the functions, well hidden behind strange function names or submenus or whatsoever. CA7 is still far from being intuitive. What I personally desire most - I have CA 7.1 and CB 9 - is: - the right-click option when move entering on the board such as in CB. That means if you click on the target field and CA suggests the wrong piece, in CB you can right-click to turn to the next piece that can move to that target field. - shortkeys for commenting moves as in CB. Just type '=' to open the short comment symbols like +-, +/=, = etc. Same for '!'. And what still confuses me is the eval display, showing some CAP data I suppose. I still wonder what information is displayed, based on which games/database/...? The automatic game analysis is difficult to use (one has to admit that CB does not offer this function) and the HTML/Javascript is also buggy up to one of the latest CA 7.1 builds. I think CB made a huge step forward with the reference functions. To see which moves have been played in the current position how often, with which success and by which players is an important feature IMO.
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