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Subject: Re: Speaking of GUI innovation (part II -- existing GUIs that innovate)

Author: Ed Schröder

Date: 02:52:54 09/07/05

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On September 06, 2005 at 22:14:55, Dann Corbit wrote:

>1.  Chessmaster has the "Human description of analysis" that is nicely done
>2.  SCID has a very nice "opening report" generator
>3.  Arena has an excellent tournament manager and engine configuration
>4.  Winboard has the best online connection manager (what nitwit could not
>figure it out?)
>5.  ChessBase has a good Elo recalculation feature
>6.  ChessAssistant can READ AND WRITE EPD records and you can run all sorts of
>engines inside of it (MCS, ChessAssistant, Winboard, UCI and others)
>7.  ChessGenius (my least favorite interface) has floating windows where every
>piece can be moved around and sized how you want it separately.
>
>More?
>
>What are your favorite features of chess GUIs that are fairly unique to one or
>two GUIs and that ought to be found in all of them?


8. XXX - contains a PGN feature that analyses (eng-eng) games (with or without
scores) and marks bad moves.

Ed



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