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)