The ChessGUI Appreciation Thread...

[swami]

It's not very often that you come across a guy who has written a chess engine and a one big GUI, most of the authors have written stand alone GUI that is only compatible with their own program, I want to thank Mathias Gemuh for his work on ChessGUI, and he has offered 2 engines as well that not only plays chess, they also support variants. I just can't thank him enough.

We have hundreds of engines, and some of us are more interested in a GUI than an engine, ChessGUI has a lot of potential, surely will be more popular than many of the GUI's around. We are not trying to dump in a load amount of work for Mathias, just showing him support and letting him know that we appreciate his work on so many softwares...If he wishes to spend less time or no time for it, it's entirely upto him.

Motivation is also the something that encourages the programmer not to give up on something, especially giving up feeling dejected thinking that no one cares about his program, so Please post to show support! (Just like how you guys did with Bright, saying you are interested that pushed the author to release the latest beta officially)

ChessGUI can be downloaded here: http://www.w2410tmq9.homepage.t-online.de/

One unique feature of ChessGUI never seen in other interface is that there is a feature "team match"! ChessGUI is only next to Arena in list of freeware GUI's.

[Martin]

I downloaded this GUI a few weeks ago and I like it a lot!
Unfortunately it quite often crashes on my computer but that is very probably not caused by a bug in ChessGui but by Vista. Arena also crashes, apparently the problem is that Vista doesn't work very well with some video cards. Grmp ...

[Matthias Gemuh]

Hi Swaminathan,

When ChessGUI failed to catch people's attention, I became quite lazy
especially concerning documentation. Documentation is lagging by several
versions. In general, I rarely have something to fix because the few features
I use, work fine and I lack the time to test what I don't use.

Regards,
Matthias.

[Matthias Gemuh]

I downloaded this GUI a few weeks ago and I like it a lot!
Unfortunately it quite often crashes on my computer but that is very probably not caused by a bug in ChessGui but by Vista. Arena also crashes, apparently the problem is that Vista doesn't work very well with some video cards. Grmp ...

Hi Martin,

I am running a 580-engine mega swiss tournament with ChessGUI/WinXP32Bit.
I launch the GUI every morning and it runs fine all day. I don't have Vista to test under. How and how often does ChessGUI crash under Vista ? Does GUI freeze or only communication with engines breaks down or GUI exits ?.
Anybody out there who has no stability problems with ChessGUI under Vista ?

Best,
Matthias.

[swami]

Hi Swaminathan,

When ChessGUI failed to catch people's attention, I became quite lazy
especially concerning documentation. Documentation is lagging by several
versions. In general, I rarely have something to fix because the few features
I use, work fine and I lack the time to test what I don't use.

Regards,
Matthias.

Hi Mathias,

The GUI is fast, and it's improved a great deal since the 0.070 something version or so(that was the last version prior to the much improved latest 0.084 that I downloaded)
Keep adding more features and it will surely surpass Arena, Classic Shredder GUI and Winbaord, chessbase might be quite difficult to overtake, but in a long run, I'm sure you would make ChessGUI even better!

I'm interested in testing ChessGUI, if it's progressed better, I might prefer the interface over Arena.

Regards.

[Matthias Gemuh]

Hi Mathias,

The GUI is fast, and it's improved a great deal since the 0.070 something version or so(that was the last version prior to the much improved latest 0.084 that I downloaded)
Keep adding more features and it will surely surpass Arena, Classic Shredder GUI and Winbaord, chessbase might be quite difficult to overtake, but in a long run, I'm sure you would make ChessGUI even better!

I'm interested in testing ChessGUI, if it's progressed better, I might prefer the interface over Arena.

Regards.

Hi Swaminathan,

I am developing ChessGUI rather slowly because I want to be sure that present features all work fine before I add more
"More" may include :
- html formating of results for web
- better book-creation options
- elo calculations/management
- even more flexible time controls
- better optics
- more testsuite stuff
- engine-aided analysis
- internet connectivity
- etc

If you have updated from 0.070 to 0.084, then delete all files in OUTPUT and TOURNAMENT folders and cross-check engine parameters in engine installation window. This wipes all current tournaments !

Best,
Matthias

[Tony Thomas]

When I downloaded Chess GUI a long time ago it was a lot more colorful. Did you do something to the color theme?

[Matthias Gemuh]

When I downloaded Chess GUI a long time ago it was a lot more colorful. Did you do something to the color theme?

I think I changed only the board.
I am still postponing colour issues because I am colour-blind.

Matthias.

[Graham Banks]

I'm interested in testing ChessGUI, if it's progressed better, I might prefer the interface over Arena.

Regards.

I'm prepared to run some CCRL tournaments under the ChessGUI if it is stable and if I can use generic books.
Mathias - should I download and try now or wait longer? I use Win XP.

Regards, Graham.

[Matthias Gemuh]

I'm interested in testing ChessGUI, if it's progressed better, I might prefer the interface over Arena.

Regards.

I'm prepared to run some CCRL tournaments under the ChessGUI if it is stable and if I can use generic books.
Mathias - should I download and try now or wait longer? I use Win XP.

Regards, Graham.

Hi Graham,
you can download now and first test at fast time controls like 1+1 or 1/40.
Play around and discover the many yet undocumented features before playing CCRL tournaments
If I update later, it should be possible to just replace the GUI exe file.
Best,
Matthias.