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Chess GUI

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Anyone else here tried Chess GUI by Mathias Gemuh? I just downloaded it few days ago, and I think its the next best thing after sliced bread. True that it is currently not in the league of Arena or winboard, but just like arena you dont have to use any adapters to install engines. Who else has ever thought of an engine team fights? It is an excellent idea I say. Rybka paired with Romi vs Fruit and Hiarcs, now that's a handicapped tag team match.

http://www.gemuh.com/
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Tony Thomas wrote:Anyone else here tried Chess GUI by Mathias Gemuh? I just downloaded it few days ago, and I think its the next best thing after sliced bread. True that it is currently not in the league of Arena or winboard, but just like arena you dont have to use any adapters to install engines. Who else has ever thought of an engine team fights? It is an excellent idea I say. Rybka paired with Romi vs Fruit and Hiarcs, now that's a handicapped tag team match.

http://www.gemuh.com/
If Arena continue to live with it's current bugs,it will soon be over passed by Matthias excellent and fast improving GUI 8-)
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Tony Thomas wrote:Anyone else here tried Chess GUI by Mathias Gemuh? I just downloaded it few days ago, and I think its the next best thing after sliced bread. True that it is currently not in the league of Arena or winboard, but just like arena you dont have to use any adapters to install engines. Who else has ever thought of an engine team fights? It is an excellent idea I say. Rybka paired with Romi vs Fruit and Hiarcs, now that's a handicapped tag team match.

http://www.gemuh.com/
Yeah Team match is the great feature, but ChessGUI has to catch up with Arena as it is missing a lot of features.
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bugs in Arena, come on doc -- i'm using it for at least 6 years and i can tell that current version is ok for me. There is things in it that can be improved, add more features and so on but as a FREE piece of software Arena GUI is unique and it contributed very much to computer chess
take it easy :)
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GenoM wrote:bugs in Arena, come on doc -- i'm using it for at least 6 years and i can tell that current version is ok for me. There is things in it that can be improved, add more features and so on but as a FREE piece of software Arena GUI is unique and it contributed very much to computer chess
Arena in general is great,especially the tournament mode,a master piece to say the least....
But the last beta's are full of bugs and they are very nasty ones :?
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Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:
GenoM wrote:bugs in Arena, come on doc -- i'm using it for at least 6 years and i can tell that current version is ok for me. There is things in it that can be improved, add more features and so on but as a FREE piece of software Arena GUI is unique and it contributed very much to computer chess
Arena in general is great,especially the tournament mode,a master piece to say the least....
But the last beta's are full of bugs and they are very nasty ones :?
What kind of bugs? Swiss option is removed from that beta.

yeah it's great for tournaments.
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swami wrote:
Dr.Wael Deeb wrote:
GenoM wrote:bugs in Arena, come on doc -- i'm using it for at least 6 years and i can tell that current version is ok for me. There is things in it that can be improved, add more features and so on but as a FREE piece of software Arena GUI is unique and it contributed very much to computer chess
Arena in general is great,especially the tournament mode,a master piece to say the least....
But the last beta's are full of bugs and they are very nasty ones :?
What kind of bugs? Swiss option is removed from that beta.

yeah it's great for tournaments.
Go to the Arena forum and see for yourself....
As for me,the most nasty bug is not being able to create personalities out of the UCI engines....The new created personality is busted to say the least :roll:
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Dr.Wael Deeb wrote: As for me,the most nasty bug is not being able to create personalities out of the UCI engines....The new created personality is busted to say the least :roll:
Which is why I use the stable Arena 1.1 GUI.

When setting the options for engines you've just loaded, you need to create a new personality when you change the default settings.

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As for me,the most nasty bug is not being able to create personalities out of the UCI engines....The new created personality is busted to say the least :roll:
arena1.99beta4 works as far as i know.
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mclane wrote:
As for me,the most nasty bug is not being able to create personalities out of the UCI engines....The new created personality is busted to say the least :roll:
arena1.99beta4 works as far as i know.
Yes,you once told me how to set a personality without having problems,but it didn't work :(
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