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Subject: Re: What is new in Arena 1.1 GUI and what now ...

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 01:14:13 12/19/04

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On December 18, 2004 at 23:46:26, Olivier Deville wrote:

>On December 18, 2004 at 18:53:47, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>
>>On December 18, 2004 at 18:31:04, Günther Simon wrote:
>>
>>Hi Günther,
>>
>>>I don't understand how your message refers to my Arena bug report?
>>>May be you did not understand my message?
>>>I explain it again for you: Some engines simply lose on time because
>>>they have bugs and it has nothing to do with the GUI, you must live with
>>>this fact and deleting their games is wrong!
>>>Actually I was talking about exactly the opposite bug in Arena.
>>>There are engines which _must_ lose on time because they have a bug
>>>at certain time controls, but with the help of a bug _in_ Arena
>>>they don't, thus Arena hides the problem and makes it even worse.
>>>(details in my previous post - BTW it's easy to reproduce...)
>>>
>>>Guenther
>>
>>OK, if you send me the information I will look too.
>>You can used the support form on the older webpage or my mail or you can add it
>>in our Arena Support Forum on the new webpage.
>>
>>Thanks for your efforts!
>>
>>But let me say the following:
>>After 30.000 games here I saw perhaps 20 games "loosed on time" without to see
>>the reason. Of course I try not all of the 250 available engines but around 70.
>>
>>So I speak from 0,06% because the other mistakes I saw are mistakes from the
>>engine programmers and this mistakes are solved by the engine programmers.
>>
>>But let me look in your bug report to say more.
>>This would be help to solved a problem and if you saw a problem, after all the
>>knowledge you have, I am sure we have a bug.
>>
>>Thanks and good night!
>>Time for my bed!
>>
>>Best
>>Frank
>
>Hi Frank
>
>I can confirm the bug described by Guenther.
>
>Actually Arena helps a certain buggy engine to survive in heavy time trouble. A
>lot of people could even see it in my live broadcasts.
>
>There is no point in helping an engine to cheat.
>
>You will get a bug report by mail soon.
>
>Olivier

Hi Olivier,

I have an other opinion about it.
This isn't a bug, is a feature :-)
And Arena have a nice option against it!
This option isn't a bug too, its a feature :-)

But I will look in the "bug" report.
Let me look and I can say more!

Merry Chrismas for you too ...

Best
Frank



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