Arena frustrations

[sincerelybrent]

You’re right, it’s only one click. But when I’m away from the computer and streaming games via Twitch, and Arena decides it wants to restart every 20 games, then it’s an issue. The pgn window hides the live, on-going tournament games. Will prob just use Fritz, I guess.

[Graham Banks]

It is really just a one click to minimize that box. Is there any particular reason why you want to suppress it?
Perhaps you can try winboard and cutechess.

Or ChessGUI.

[sincerelybrent]

It is really just a one click to minimize that box. Is there any particular reason why you want to suppress it?
Perhaps you can try winboard and cutechess.

Or ChessGUI.

I know you and Ray like ChessGUI. I’ll give that a try—thanks for the reminder.

[tmokonen]

You’re right, it’s only one click. But when I’m away from the computer and streaming games via Twitch, and Arena decides it wants to restart every 20 games, then it’s an issue. The pgn window hides the live, on-going tournament games. Will prob just use Fritz, I guess.

You can increase the number of games between restarts in the Start/Quit tab in the Engine Tournament window.

Where can people watch your stream?

[GONeill]

Did you know you can resize the PGN window and move it around the screen? It remembers how big and where it is next time it opens, so although you can't stop it appearing you can make it really small and put it somewhere inconspicuous.

[mclane]

You have to use arena 201. Later arena versions were buggy,

[sincerelybrent]

You have to use arena 201. Later arena versions were buggy,

Where can I get that? Playwitharena.com loads only a blank page. Thanks,

[sincerelybrent]

Did you know you can resize the PGN window and move it around the screen? It remembers how big and where it is next time it opens, so although you can't stop it appearing you can make it really small and put it somewhere inconspicuous.

So simple. Good idea, thanks

[tmokonen]

Interesting, the download link for Arena 2.01 still works

http://www.playwitharena.com/download/a ... _setup.exe

So the site is still somewhat alive.

[ljgw]

Interesting, the download link for Arena 2.01 still works

http://www.playwitharena.com/download/a ... _setup.exe

So the site is still somewhat alive.

The site is apparently written in a php version that is not supported by the server that currently hosts it, so that would explain why straight download links indeed still work.