Who are the true heroes?

[tomgdrums]

The authors of user interfaces (Xboard, Arena, Chessgui, etc.) are true heros. What would we do without them?

I think you can exclude Arena from the list. It is nothing but a buggy Gui which cause engines to lose on time..... Once the author fixes that, he might be on that list...

I disagree. Arena is the best free chess GUI available. Even some commercial GUIs can't compete.

I found Arena difficult to work with for analyzing games but I think it is mostly meant for Engine Matches and Tournaments. Am I correct about that?

No other software comes near Arena GUI in terms of eng-eng matches but that's all it can realy offer unfortunately....It's understandable as it's a one man project....
ChessBase is superior in everyway you might think....
Dr.D

Totally off subject Dr. D but I am messing around with your Zappa settings. All I have added was just raising Zappa's contempt from 0 to 5. I just want to see what happens for the heck of it.

[Dr.Wael Deeb]

The authors of user interfaces (Xboard, Arena, Chessgui, etc.) are true heros. What would we do without them?

I think you can exclude Arena from the list. It is nothing but a buggy Gui which cause engines to lose on time..... Once the author fixes that, he might be on that list...

I disagree. Arena is the best free chess GUI available. Even some commercial GUIs can't compete.

I found Arena difficult to work with for analyzing games but I think it is mostly meant for Engine Matches and Tournaments. Am I correct about that?

No other software comes near Arena GUI in terms of eng-eng matches but that's all it can realy offer unfortunately....It's understandable as it's a one man project....
ChessBase is superior in everyway you might think....
Dr.D

Totally off subject Dr. D but I am messing around with your Zappa settings. All I have added was just raising Zappa's contempt from 0 to 5. I just want to see what happens for the heck of it.

Thanks Tom but as my friend Majd stated,Zappa shows it's real muscles when using more cores at long time controls and that's why CEGT didn't get any improvement with my settings over the default ones as they tested with 1CPU....that won't make the trick unfortunately....
Dr.D

[kingliveson]

The authors of user interfaces (Xboard, Arena, Chessgui, etc.) are true heros. What would we do without them?

I think you can exclude Arena from the list. It is nothing but a buggy Gui which cause engines to lose on time..... Once the author fixes that, he might be on that list...

I disagree. Arena is the best free chess GUI available. Even some commercial GUIs can't compete.

I found Arena difficult to work with for analyzing games but I think it is mostly meant for Engine Matches and Tournaments. Am I correct about that?

No other software comes near Arena GUI in terms of eng-eng matches but that's all it can realy offer unfortunately....It's understandable as it's a one man project....
ChessBase is superior in everyway you might think....
Dr.D

Arena is good for many things. The only place for me where it lacks, is the book implementation. I have developed several books for it and it is a pain. That said, tournaments, test suites, analyzing...it is the best. Do you know that you can't play more than 255 rounds in Fritz GUI? This is a problem if you have 250 positions and you need to do reverse colors 500 matches.

[Alexander Schmidt]

It's a shame they don't crash off the highway altogether and disappear!

That is what they deserve?

Remember, official researches showed that 40% of executed death penalties in the USA where done to unguilty persons...

[Carlos777]

True heroes have real names.

Sergio Leone begs to differ.

Haha, that was a good one. The Dollars Trilogy and the Man with No Name.
Great films.

[swami]

True heroes have real names.

Sergio Leone begs to differ.

Haha, that was a good one. The Dollars Trilogy and the Man with No Name.
Great films.

...and he created the world #3 of all time: Il buono, il brutto, il cattivo.

I've got to see that one sooner.