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Subject: Re: Lets hear it for the CB gui

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 08:03:03 08/31/05

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On August 31, 2005 at 07:43:08, Thomas Logan wrote:

>On August 31, 2005 at 02:15:51, Kurt Utzinger wrote:
>
>>On August 31, 2005 at 01:31:13, Alex Schmidt wrote:
>>
>>>>The chessbase gui receives a lot of flack but you just dont have the book setup
>>>>problems on the cb gui that you do on arena
>>>
>>>It's a question of personal taste. I don't like to do the book setups for every
>>>match/tournament like in the CB GUI. If you select "no book" and want to play
>>>with the own book of the engine sometimes a GUI book is used. But the main
>>>problem with UCI engines under CB GUI is that sometimes simply wrong settings
>>>are sent to the engine. I hope this is finally fixed with Fritz 9...
>>>
>>>Alex
>>
>>      Hi Alex
>>      It's indee a matter of taste. In this particular case I prefer
>>      to set book options for every match/tournament in so far as to
>>      be sure what I am doing. Otherwise you may run matches with
>>      wrong settings and you have to do the work twice. As to Fruit's
>>      book: is there indeed a problem under Arena? I have not tried yet.
>>      Kurt [http://www.utzingerk.com]
>
>In human vs computer match
>
>I got the shredder book and engine to work
>
>The fruit engine with the shredder book

I don't know what you mean here exactly, I thought you were talking
about Arena and books at least your answer refers to it?
In this case you must be wrong you cannot use the Shredder book
(neither native nor CB) under Arena.

Guenther


>
>trying to stop the match is another matter as the engine continues to calculate
>after hitting stop
>
>hitting resign or closing arena seemed to be the only avenue to ending a match
>
>Tom



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