Arena 2.0 beauty contest! :-)

[Marc MP]

I like my winboard_x (but I'm cheating a bit as I use Fritz USCF pieces):

[Guerrero]

This textures are available in:

http://www.grsites.com/textures/

[Guerrero]

Ok, I use Winboard-X too.



http://img175.imageshack.us/my.php?imag ... rdzaw9.png

[GenoM]

Pals.
Arena is much more flexible, intuitive and user-friendly than Winboard. Who's gonna challenge that?

Regards,
Geno

[hgm]

I thought a beauty contest was only about looks?

From the pictures people post here, I can see how Arena looks. But I cannot see how it functions, so there is nothing I can say about that, or challenge what other people say about it.

I would be surprised, however, if anything could be more intuitive than the way I currently run tournaments using WinBoard + PSWBTM.

(Except, of course, that Arena could not run them at all. So there really is no comparison.)

[Karmazen & Oliver]

I thought a beauty contest was only about looks?

From the pictures people post here, I can see how Arena looks. But I cannot see how it functions, so there is nothing I can say about that, or challenge what other people say about it.

I would be surprised, however, if anything could be more intuitive than the way I currently run tournaments using WinBoard + PSWBTM.

(Except, of course, that Arena could not run them at all. So there really is no comparison.)

OK. In some (my) post I write about its funcionts, and in the IMG file, I select the options select in a green circle... or lines.

I test now and THE NEW version is more fast, more stable, more looking is a lof of MORE ¡

link img

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 ¡

LONG LIVE for ARENA GUI CHESS ¡ hurrah ¡ hurrah ¡ hurrah ¡

bye. Oliver from Spain.

link HERE big:
FANTASTIC GUI ¡
Arena is very flexible... good program.

In RESUMEN, I select all options that Arena can show.. it´s very complex, but it give me a lot of info..

bye. Oliver. From Spain.

[hgm]

Well, it is always interesting to see if the competition offers any interesting features that are worth copying...

If I look for features that you encircled that WinBoard does not have, I basically notice two things:

* A panel with some information on the Book (the "Move P G Wi prob Line" stuff; it is not intuitively clear to me what that means, but I am not an opening expert).
* The PV in the game history.

The rest pretty much seems to be stuff that WinBoard has as well (as far as I can see). The PV-in-history would be very easy to implement. But as the only postings I have seen around on this Arena feature were about how to switch it off, so I wonder if that would be worth it... )

[ernest]

If I look for features...

Well, don't forget the multi-PV analysis...
(up to now, the Winboard solution is ugly)

[hgm]

What exactly is ugly about the WB solution, and how would you like it better?

[ernest]

Remember the discussion with Greg Simpson in
http://www.talkchess.com/forum/viewtopi ... =&start=20

You said:
...I have no idea. If this is standard behavior for UCI engines, it should be considered an error of Polyglot translating UCI to WB protocol. If Polyglot would only forward those lines to WB it is not receiving for a second or later time, things would work smoothly