Arena Chess GUI Changelog
What's new in Arena Chess GUI 3.0
Dec 27, 2010- 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
New in Arena Chess GUI 2.5.0 (Nov 30, 2010)
- Maximum 8 engines can run at the same time instead of 3
- Tablebases
- Better compatibility to Linux/WINE
- extended options to mark the last move, e.g. with arrow
- Appearance adjusts to Windows theme
New in Arena Chess GUI 2.0.1 (Sep 15, 2010)
- Bestmove-statistics status remembered also for engine one
- Better displaying quality for TrueType pieces, if Windows has FontSmoothing off
- Color changes in the analysis lines are now applied at once also for engine two and three
- Material difference is now switched according to the board orientaion
- Analysis lines from Crafty shown again
- Faint shadows during moving white TrueType-pieces now gone
- English translation for Russian codepage added
- Missing English translation added in ICS-options: Use time safety buffer for search (seconds)
- EPD-list drag+drop can be disabled now (better for Wine)