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Subject: Re: Arena 1.53 Alpha

Author: Swaminathan

Date: 01:58:22 12/15/05

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On December 15, 2005 at 04:46:51, Michael Diosi wrote:

>On December 15, 2005 at 00:43:09, Swaminathan wrote:
>
>>Is it available for download as a beta,Arena website seems to have shut down
>>long time ago.
>
>?

I mean Arena site is shut down and the site is not updated.

>>The graphics in the first glance looks almost same the current
>>public version,maybe team members from Arena should explain better,Will it be
>>available before Christmas?
>
>We think so.
>
>>here is the link to the screenshot
>>http://www.exactachess.com/images/arena/Arena1.GIF
>>
>>Looks like that team have finally bought the idea of colouring the threatened
>>squares from chessbase :)
>
>
>Chessbase was not the first program to use this idea. They have borrowed from us
>Chess960, UCI-support, ...

UCI support?

>>Menus are all same as the current downloadable version,nothing much I wouldn't
>>be surprised if the new features are PGN bug fixed stuff.
>
>Wait and see,

It's better if you could tell us what the new features are,as the menus are
almost same as the old version.It would be nice to have Round Robin League which
was proposed by several users long time ago.There are lots other features that
are missing.

Is the time management bug fixed?I have been reporting here several times about
this serious Arena bug.

> it's free we don't charge money for programs which can't find a
>mate in 2 like Fritz 9 :

I don't have Fritz 9,So I should wait for it's release from Viva Media.
Fritz from Viva Media costs only 20$.

> br6/kP6/1R1N4/8/4q3/8/8/2K5 w - - 0 1
>
>What a shame to pay 50 € for this.
>
>Michael



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