Author: GeoffW
Date: 15:46:52 12/15/04
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Hello Roger
>I have no intention of starting a minor war but I really have to disagree here.
Rolls sleeves up an put on the gloves !!
>
>:-)
>
>Winboard is rock solid stable. It supports several engines. It is the best
>"beta" release I have seen.
Yes Winboard is a fine program for what it does, I have used it a little bit in
the past.
>It is not pretty, there are no colours or bells and
>whistles.
It is the bells and whisteles I like in Arena that you can't do directly when
using Winboard. For example, from a programmers perspective, this is what I like
for testing my engine
1) Easy to run long round-robin or Swiss tournaments
2) Automatically produced html results tables
3) Ability to use fixed Nunn game openings to reduce randomness
4) Pgn files that contain the search depth and thinking time for later game
analysis. This is one feature I really miss when downloading Leo's Winboard
competition pgn's to try and figure out why I lost :-(
>Of course, it is lovely to have all of these choices for free!
Yes I am partial to a freebie myself, and it would be boring if we all preferred
the same GUI.
>Ps. Any word on your engine? Or are you out of the engine writing business?
My engine is taking a bit of a back seat at the moment. Several reasons really
For a hopeless chess player it is getting to the point where initial easy
improvements are getting harder to come by. I think I need to learn how to play
chess half decently now :-)
I have been doing a fair bit of code writing at work lately, so coding in my
spare time is hard work
Busy playing Half Life2, RCT3 in my spare PC time
All sound like lame excuses, but I dare say I will dust off the compiler at some
point in the future and see what I can do. Just looked at Leo's tourny tables,
being bottom is quite motivating though :-)
Regards Geoff
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