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Subject: Re: Features needed by most/all chess programs

Author: Bernhard Bauer

Date: 00:20:13 11/05/99

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On November 04, 1999 at 20:18:40, Robert Pawlak wrote:

>It is a shame that none of the programs available today allow you to pause the
>analysis of a game. Let's say you've started analyzing a game, and you want to
>go online. You have to put your program into the background, and dilute the
>strength of the engine (assuming you are not using ply-depth analysis). What
>about a nice little pause/resume button that you can hit before/after you've
>read your e-mail?
>
>The same goes for pausing a game in progress. You should be able to stop the
>program, then come back the next day and finish where you left off... A few
>programs offer a feature like this, but many do not (i.e. they forget the game
>time, or force you to assign a result to the game).
>
>Bob P.

Why do you want to pause your analysis? Isn't it mych better to continue *and*
be online, read and write mail, etc?
I do it everyday, but I use WinNT or Unix and crafty.
But from my experience there are a lot of people who love their freshly booted
DOS and find it great to sit in front of a chess screen where they couldn't do
anything but playing chess. But thats all they want to do.
Kind regards
Bernhard



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