My best thank to programmer Martin Blume, to promoters Frank Quisinsky, Michael Diosi, Christopher Conkie and to all other testers!
Eduard
I test now and THE NEW version is more fast, more stable, more looking is a lof of MORE ¡
it´s a fantastic GUI chess, I think that is the GUI more configurable in the world, where you can change a lot ot options to do a "human" gui... it´s fantastic in ALL his options ¡¡¡
arena have free support for *.pgn, epds, copy information, printing, support too for DGT boards, for Novag Citrine and other "compatibleS" serials in configuration... ¡¡ support too for ICS ¡¡ support book too ¡ and show a lot of information in the window ¡
good work for all people that colaborate with ARENA CHESS GUI ¡
BUT...I can get no sound. All I want is a "click" when the pieces move. Arena 1.1 and 1.99 were the same way - no sound. There is a file in the Arena program on my harddrive called sound but I can't get it to work.
They offer national anthems. That may be nice, but all I want is a simple "click."
All I can add is the following, which you've probably already done:
Options-->Appearance-->Sounds
Check the "Play sounds" box. From the "Select a sound playing ..." options choose "at a normal move." Click on the "Folder" icon to browse your file system for sound files. Navigate to Arena20/Sounds/ and select move.wav. Click Open. Click Play to test the sound. Then Apply and OK.
This works for me. I'm running Arena using Wine on a Mac. I was happy to get sound at all!
Is anyone able to make Novag Universal Board (UCB) work with arena 2.0?
UCB hardware settings are:
9600 bauds, 8 data bits, no parity, 1 stop bit, no flow control.
Arena can see my move from the UCB in the communication tab of Novag Chessboard settings. Like Me2-e4 but the move does not register on the Arena chess board.
I am thinking the letter M the UCB sends in front of the move may be the problem.
Arena comes up as a mixture of German and English. Default in Extras is set to English and I even have tried the /e option in the start shortcut. Any ideas?
swami wrote:Good to see Arena updated after really a long time. I hope they find time to working on it more, they have plenty of scope to overtake chessbase. It seems chessbase has run out of ideas.
Its hard to believe a sane person would come up with such an "assessment" after the release of Arena 1.99 to 2.00 Is this reverse psychology or a joke?
