Arena 3.0 available

[Michael Diosi]

Hi all,


Arena 3.0 is now available for download from the Arena webpage.
These are the novelities/improvements:

• UCIFilter fixed+improved
  Removing engines from memory after aborting tournament mode works now
  It is now possible to make an engine weaker in ICS mode
  Mainlines can be saved as variations in PGN (optional)
  Nodes/sec now works for Winboard engines
  New option for Knodes/second instead of nodes/second
  Sound at start of Arena now hearable
  Autoplayer repaired
  Wine tournament bug fixed: engines can restart now
  Wine font bug fixed: If fonts Arial or Courier New not available, choose appropriate one, not random one
  Wine helpfile reader added as separate download
  Wine does not show Chess Merida Arena's mask. Mask disabled on wine, so graphics is not spoilled
  If no font "Wingdings" available (common on Wine), show simple '+','=' and '-' characters, not wrong ones
  Inactive buttons in tournament mode visible, not invisible, but inactive as they should
  Auto-Analysis: Comprehensive output in report starts with 1
  Auto-Analysis: Bug removed where positions were not analyzed
  Auto-Analysis: New option for adding parameter info in report file
  In PGN output duplicate game result in braces removed, e.g.: {1-0 Arena adjudication} 1-0
  Superflous "..." after last move in PGN removed
  Winboard options "memory", "cores" and "egtpath" now globally setable
  Bug in combo boxes in Winboard options removed
  Option "Large Logos" works again

We wish you all a Merry Christmas !


Michael
www.playwitharena.com

[Sedat Canbaz]

Many thanks to Arena Team-for this gift !!

Happy new year,
Sedat

[Damir]

Many thanks for this nice update Arena team.
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.

[Andres Valverde]

Many thanks to the Arena team !

[Peter Marriott]

Thank you very much!!

Merry Christmas to the Arena team and everybody else who celebrates!

[perejaslav]

'Minimize to tray' feature during an Automatic analysis of the EPD files set is broken!
Every time when I restore Arena window from a tray I always get a new initial position analysed by engine instead of analysing the next one in the list.
I think you understand what I described here

Good Luck and Merry Christmas!

PS Shredder Classic is still unexpendable GUI to analyse EPD files...

[gerold]

Thanks for the new Arena.

Merry Christmas Michael,Martin and Arena team.

Best,
Gerold.

[beachknight]

Thanks so much.

Best,

[SzG]

Thank you and a Merry Christmas!

Unfortunately I will have to continue with a bug report.

I had a tournament running under Arena 2.5 beta and alll was well. As 3.0 appeared I switched to it immediately and continued the tournament. In the morning I found that Glass 1.6 and Little Goliath Evolution has both crashed twice.
Now I have switched back to 2.5 beta and those two are not crashing any more.

[Michael Diosi]

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