Author: Roger D Davis
Date: 10:20:35 09/07/05
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On September 07, 2005 at 06:44:14, Gerd Isenberg wrote: >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? > >Hi Dann, > >what i still miss, is a real sophisticated MDI/MVC-chess gui, something like a >eclipse for chess. Multiple Chess documents, where each document may be >associated with multiple views and controllers. One chess-document may be >created by two engines playing each other, or by human-engine match or of course >by loading games from databases to analyze. > >A chess-document, associated with one (or more) engine(s) might have a shared >hash-table and one or more views (chess-board-windows, including game notation) >associated with it. Each window is able to analyze a local position of the game, >multiple views of the chess document are able to analyze several positions of >the same game, same engine might share transposition table. Some analyze windows >may have move-filters or may work in some k-best move mode. > >Multiple chess-docs may also be created inside a dedicated simultanious >workbench controller - similar to my old Dos-IsiChess. > >Dedicated none-modal MVCs for chess-database and opening editor support. >An opening-book editor should have at least three control-window components as a >combined view/controller of the whole book: > >1. A single selection list control with all available book moves from the >current root position (which might be changed by interaction with the mentioned) >together with some kind of probability of play (may be altered) and/or >annotations. Make/unmake the current selected move by interaction. > >2. A tree control with further book moves of the current selected book move of >listcontrol (1). The tree control is able to expand/shrink nodes individually or >by move nesting level. Local Transpositions are indicated by some arrows to some >enumerated, colored tags. > >3. A multi column list control with all (transposed) book-lines, leading to this >current root position. It must be able to handle/indicate mirrored positions >like 1.e3 e5. 2. e4 and transpositions played with other number of moves like in >the sveshnikov, where the same postions occurs after e6 Bf4 e5 Bg5 or immediate >e5 Bg5 etc.. > >All three controls allow a complex traversion of the opening book, with >"unlimited" undo/redo. Lines from other views/window may be immediatly added by >drag/drop. Additional search features of positions and move sequences is also >nice to have. > >Cheers, >Gerd Any one of these innovations would be a real step forward. Roger
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