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perejaslav
Posts: 240Joined: Sat Mar 18, 2006 4:01 amLocation: Cold
Post by perejaslav Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:28 pm
Michael Diosi wrote: Hi,
Sure... if you noticed this before and you would have sent it to US it might have been fixed already. And still you didn't, don't and will not pay for Arena.
Now let's see if we would charge as much as Shredder does...
Michael
http://www.playwitharena.com
I dont want to pay any cent for buggy GUI
Rybka with her bugs is enough for me!
Uri Blass
Posts: 10282Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2006 12:37 amLocation: Tel-Aviv Israel
Post by Uri Blass Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:31 pm
Arena adjudicate the following game wrong probably because of a bug in rybka(that initially had draw evaluation) together with lack of knowledge by SOS that does not know that it is a draw.
Michael Diosi
Posts: 672Joined: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:37 pm
Post by Michael Diosi Sat Dec 25, 2010 12:49 pm
Hello,
as any civilised person start a posting...
Also you should learn to read: Arena was free, is free and will be free. You don't need to pay anything. You do not want to contribute to the improvement as you didn't send any report to us. This is fine but then don't shout it is not fixed. We can not guess about the bugs and read all postings in all fora.
Michael
http://www.playwitharena.com
Roger Brown
Posts: 782Joined: Wed Mar 08, 2006 9:22 pm
Post by Roger Brown Sat Dec 25, 2010 1:48 pm
perejaslav wrote:
I dont want to pay any cent for buggy GUI
Rybka with her bugs is enough for me!
Hello Slavik,
You do know that a chess gui is an incredibly complex piece of software and that it is a given that bugs will exist somewhere?
I think for the features and price that the developers of Arena have presented a remarkably functional, multi-featured and sexy (alright, I need to get out more!) gui.
They do need your bug reports to improve it .
I do have some empathy for the Arena team because there is another gui which I love dearly (I am going to start getting out more tomorrow) and it is always annoying to see posts about it by persons who do not use it or do not have the time to inform the developer of the discovered bugs.
So how about helping them out and instead of posting buggy gui with a frowning face icon, actually telling them something they can use.
Besides Michael was speaking tongue in cheek about the charging....
Later.
hgm
Posts: 27791Joined: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:06 amLocation: AmsterdamFull name: H G Muller
Post by hgm Sat Dec 25, 2010 3:11 pm
Why does it say [Whitetype "human"], [Blacktype "human"] when you play two engines against each other?
I see you did not like my suggestion to take the PV out of the comment braces?
When WinBoard analyzes a game it would save it as
1. e4 Nc6 {-0.04/10 1} (Nb8-c6 d2-d4 d7-d5 e4xd5 Qd8xd5 Ng1-f3 Qd5-e4+ Bf1-e2 Bc8-f5)
2. d4
rather than
1. e4 Nc6 {(Nb8-c6 d2-d4 d7-d5 e4xd5 Qd8xd5 Ng1-f3 Qd5-e4+ Bf1-e2 Bc8-f5)
-0.04/10 1} 2. d4
so that you can play the PV as a Recursive Annotated Variation in PGN processing software.
Michael Diosi
Posts: 672Joined: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:37 pm
Post by Michael Diosi Sat Dec 25, 2010 3:18 pm
hgm wrote: Why does it say [Whitetype "human"], [Blacktype "human"] when you play two engines against each other?
I see you did not like my suggestion to take the PV out of the comment braces?
When WinBoard analyzes a game it would save it as
1. e4 Nc6 {-0.04/10 1} (Nb8-c6 d2-d4 d7-d5 e4xd5 Qd8xd5 Ng1-f3 Qd5-e4+ Bf1-e2 Bc8-f5)
2. d4
rather than
1. e4 Nc6 {(Nb8-c6 d2-d4 d7-d5 e4xd5 Qd8xd5 Ng1-f3 Qd5-e4+ Bf1-e2 Bc8-f5)
-0.04/10 1} 2. d4
so that you can play the PV as a Recursive Annotated Variation in PGN processing software.
Hi,
sent it again to Martin. There will be a new release with some fixes as well as new verions of our partner engine in about three weeks, so let's see.
Michael
http://www.playwitharena.com
Michael Diosi
Posts: 672Joined: Mon Jun 22, 2009 1:37 pm
Post by Michael Diosi Sat Dec 25, 2010 5:24 pm
Hi,
o.k. Appearance -> PGN -> Save mainline as variation
Michael
http://www.playwitharena.com
MikeB
Posts: 4889Joined: Thu Mar 09, 2006 6:34 amLocation: Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania
Post by MikeB Sat Dec 25, 2010 6:31 pm
Michael Diosi wrote: Hi all,
Arena 3.0 is now available for download from the Arena webpage.
These are the novelities/improvements:
UCIFilter fixed+improved
We wish you all a Merry Christmas !
Michael
www.playwitharena.com
Very , very nice and Merry Christamas to you too!
I just finished customizing the, wood images are from my personal chessboard!
hgm
Posts: 27791Joined: Fri Mar 10, 2006 10:06 amLocation: AmsterdamFull name: H G Muller
Post by hgm Sat Dec 25, 2010 8:39 pm
Amstaff
Posts: 148Joined: Thu Nov 19, 2009 4:58 pmLocation: College Station, Texas
Post by Amstaff Sat Dec 25, 2010 11:06 pm
Hello Michael, thanks for Arena 3.0. I noticed when I start a game with Deep Rybka 3, Rybka starts calculating even before I move, gives it a + 2.5 score, then declares a with by ajudication. Seems like I saw something like this reported previously. It doesn't happen with the other extra engines I have loaded so far.
