Author: maria clara benedicto
Date: 06:42:52 12/18/04
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On December 18, 2004 at 05:50:13, Frank Quisinsky wrote: >Hi there, > >different persons asked me and I will write the answer not by mail again and >again. > >Interesting are the news ticker message I have written to this topics. >You can see it on Arena webpage co.uk. > >Additional: >---------- > >Since Arena 1.092 Martin added a lot of important things. >I wrote in the older Arena Support the wishes before I have closed the forum. A >little bit about the problem we have here with support mails and in combination >with it the wishes I have. So Martin try to added all of my wishes in the latest >weeks and we discuss a lot about the new options with ideas to implemented the >wishes. > >Arena have a new backup system. >The files engines.ini, bundle.ini. *.cfg and the registration of engine and gui >settings are saved directly with this new GUI option. > >Example: >You has install Arena on your PC! >You will make a new OS installation or you buy a second machine! > >You can saved all settings (backup Arena settings and you can create a backup CD >from your Arena folder with all engines you installed (for the copy protection >engines, please follow the notes from the companys). Now you can add the folder >on a new PC and you can restore all settings. Arena will be ready for take off >after one minute. So you can see that the registry settings are much more >interesting as *.ini or *.cfg files. You can make more. The engines freaks have >to learn it because the engines like is to edit in configuration files. For this >group of people a nice example: > >Look in the new backup folder Arena created after "backup Arena settings" and >you can see one *.reg files from all intalled engines. Interesting, you can see >all the UCI settings from all installed UCI engines in only one file :-) > >You can edit the settings all in all directly in the *.reg (please make an >backup before you will do some things) files you have create with "Backup Arena >Settings". After this you can say "Restore Arena Settings" and you don't have to >start all UCI engines if you like it to edit UCI parameter from all installed >UCI engines in one file all in all. > >In combination with this new options Arena show now in a table the configuration >from the WB engines. Which engine will give me support for: Edit mode, move now, >analyze mode, ponder, table-bases or used an Arena Engine book. All this you can >set by yourself in the engine configuration or you can try Pedro's Beltran >"engines.ini". In engines.ini are all information available which WB engine >supported the different modes WinBoard will give us. Arena will read the engines >ini and will set all information automaticially in the GUI. > >Pedro Beltran (Mexiko) do here a big help for us. > >I like the webpages of Leo but I haven't interst to look after each new >configuration in the detail page and search the information for the reason to >find out if an engine supported the "analyze mode" (for an example). > >Interesting is, that you can set for each engines comments. Example Nejmet: >Nejmet is stronger in version 3.06 with ponder, without ponder 3.07 is stronger. >Such comment you can set by yourself and in a good table all is sorted and no >information you will be loosed. The problem is that we have to many engines >today and I cann't know for each engine all the information i found out for >myself ... too many information for me. > >The DGT Clock XP is clearly improved and show the move of the engines. This is >the big deal for the clock XP in combination with the big display. But not for >us because we are try to make in detail a little bit more. For the DGT Support >Martin have since years a lot of power options in Arena. The Clock can show >under Arena GUI the evaluation :-) > >If I install other chess GUI I look what the others made in questions to the DGT >support. After all what I can see Arena have the most interesting DGT Support. >One of the highlights in Arena Chess GUI. > >Read my other message I have written to the topic in CCC. > >Different new smaller options Martin add. >Colors for the pieces for an example. > >User can set a ELO for each engine by itself. >This is interesting because Arena show this ELO during an engine-engine match. >Nice to see in tournaments how big is the difference in ELO if the engines are >played a match. We have so many good rating list in WWW, interesting users can >pick up the ELO from good rating list we have today. >Later Martin will try to add the ELO after an ELOstat calculation automatically. >The most work for such an option is done but not ready yet after my information. >We discuss about it and I have the opinion that the user have set the ELO, not >Arena automatically. Because this one is in combination with an other option >more interesting we can talk about it if Arena 1.2 or 1.3 is available. > >Other smaller options, like figurine notation for the show ECO line in Arena. >Arena show the player name above and under the board. Here you can see ... > >Flag / Player Name / ELO / Clock again. >You can set the information you like. >The clock here have now the same font as the main clock. Same for the ELO, same >font as the clock. This is important, because the GUI have a better look. > >Martin fixed some of the reported bugs, the biggest know bugs are all fixed. >Different smaler bugs are after testing not a bug, more or less a feature :-) > >We are thinking that version 1.1 is the best Arena version we give out and I >believe that perhaps Arena don't have so many bugs as other GUIs. The reason is >that we try to find out bugs with our open way and the user help us. This is >important in a small team and the reason that we make our webpage more secure. >We have interest to develop a chess GUI and no interest on boring discuss from >trouble makers again and again. With such discuss we can make Arena not >stronger! > >A lot of bad English from myself but I hope that this text give the users a >little bit more information about the new Arena. To make Arena more stabil is >the main point in version 1.1 and I think we have now a great release version of >Arena. > >The next Arena version will come out in 11 years. > >Best >Frank
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