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Subject: Re: CA7.1 or CB9

Author: Harald Faber

Date: 14:11:48 10/17/04

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On October 17, 2004 at 12:09:16, Robert Pawlak wrote:

>Harald, see below
>
>On October 17, 2004 at 10:54:01, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>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 '!'.
>>
>Hit = or + or - or ! when in CA, you will find that the proper comments and
>evals are added to the move. So CA has this ability too.

I know that this can be entered too but it is considered to be textual
annotation and you have problems displaying/entering unclear, +/= in the usual
manner etc. In CB you just hit '!' and can pick from the list whatever you need.

>>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/...?
>
>Eval is from a tree of human (master) evaluations of opening moves. CAP data is
>shown under the CAP column. You can override evaluations in the Eval tree if you
>want.

Good to know. Does it depend on some active/open base or where does this
information come from?

>>The automatic game analysis is difficult to use (one has to admit that CB does
>>not offer this function)
>Once more, I think this is a matter of opinion.

I do not think so, but we can continue this forever. :)

>> and the HTML/Javascript is also buggy up to one of the
>>latest CA 7.1 builds.
>
>We discussed this elsewhere - the fact that the DHTML did not work in earlier
>builds for a browser that was pre-1.0 status, and not officially released until
>a month or two ago, should not be constituted a bug. CA was released this time
>last year, after all.

At that time it was a bug. ;) And it was up to one of the latest builds, as I
said above.

>CA has other bugs to be sure, but this is not one of them.

Now it may be no more a bug, but it has been for a long time.

>>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.
>
>I will have to find someone with CB 9 and take a look.
>Bob

You really should do, as I will read through the new features announcement for
CA 8. Reading the first sentences in the yahoogroup I get no idea what all this
is. ;-( Think I have to read it very carefully again, from the very start to the
very end.



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