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16, FQ 1. Today Arnaud LOHEAC sent the French ecocodes.txt translation. Now ecocodes.txt is available in five languages. It seems there are a lot of great moments for Arena. Each day we got new files (opening books, menu translation, other material). Really one of the biggest events for all the French users to have this French ecocodes.txt. Today in the evening Arnaud sent us an update (I made the file to fast available, sorry Arnaud). On January 17th, 2005
Arnaud sent the next one! 2.
Yesterday I added the first poll for the year 2005 on Arena webpage. We hope for
a lot of votes. 3. Michael Jesdinsky sent his opening book for our webpage. More and more opening books are available on Arena webpage, great!
15, FQ Dr. Frank Schubert sent the "Arena" version of ELOstat. I wrote yesterday that Arena used ELOstat as "PlugIn". Please read my message to ELOstat from yesterday. ELOstat 1.3 for Arena can be found
under
Under "User Files, Engines" I added yesterday a little German comment by Dr. Frank Schubert. Frank wrote me: I believe with the German word "Konfidenzintervalle" much German readers have understanding problems and within I ask Frank for more information. Today Frank wrote: Now all is clear!
14, FQ Dann Corbit sent an update
from his SuperBook. The book is really hugeness! Dann sent the following additional information (on Arena webpage is only the newest opening book available).
Here is the old one:
Here is the new one:
This is the PGN from which
the new book was derived:
Hint: Much more easy to make a connection with a good FTP client, like Total Commander! Example: Total
Commander Menu: Net /
FTP connect / new connection The new opening book version by
Dann's SuperBook is the reason for me to try to sorted the books on
Additional information from
today: The size in "Mb"
of Arena webpage is at the moment -- 251,51 --
13, FQ Dr. Frank Schubert updated ELOstat. On Arena webpage are two versions available. Version 1.1a (standard version) and version 1.2-2 (for Arena). Version 1.2-2 is more or less a plugin for Arena Chess GUI Frank and Martin added for around 1 1/2 years. This great tool by Dr. Frank Schubert is very popular and the most users of chess engines used this tool for the own ELO calculations. In the time Frank develops the first version of ELOstat, Frank used some of the databases from Frank's Chess Page for experiments (CCE-tourney, first WB rating list). ELOstat 1.3 can be found
under
Changes from version 1.2 to 1.3:
Dr. Frank Schubert Please read also the readme.rtf
file. Thanks Frank!
12, FQ The first
engine books in Arena's own *.abk opening book format are available! The books
can be found under:
Furthermore,
I works now two weeks on a little bit better Arena webpage. To modify the older
HTML webpage is not really a new event, perhaps a little bit boring, but it's
important for us that the "Gladiators" can find the important information around
Arena, downloads and the other material very fast. For ATL League I added the
older Please use the forms. In the feature we will not open again our fora systems. 15 hours per week for the forum and all the mails in combination with the offer fora systems is too many work for us. We hope of understanding!
Interesting
is our little "News-Ticker" in
Soon I will
write the first review for our new
Lisa found an adequate work station for me!?
Thanks for visiting our webpage and ...
11, FQ Dilso A. Borges (Brazil) sent yesterday the Arena Portuguese menu translation.
Yes, we all wait a
long time for the ARENA Portuguese translation ...
10, FQ Now most of the engines had finished more than 200 games. After ATL League A, B, C round 6 we got the first stable rating list with around 240 games of each active ATL engine (at the moment the ATL League will go forward to round 6).
Updated engines with higher ELO jumpings are a "little" problem. Good examples are Spike from version 0.8 to 0.9, Fruit from version 1.5 to 2.0 or Gandalf from version 4.32h to 6.0 (Gandalf is playing as guest in ATL League A, B, C round 5 and 6). But the first older results of such engines will be deleted with round 7. Example: With other words: The ATL League
have a clear system! The ATL rating list based on Intel Dual Xeon 2.8 GHz (ponder = on) and in my opinion the strongest of the available WB / UCI engines.
09, FQ Here are the final results of ATL
League C round 5 (as guest played Gandalf 6.0 and Trace 1.33a). Interesting is, that the first
three engines will go in League B! Naum on ranking 10 will go in
League B?
380 games played / Tournament finished Tournament start: 2004.12.31, 14:54:34 Latest update: 2005.01.09, 19:41:16 Site/ Country: Schweich, Germany Level: Turnier 40/10 Hardware: 4x Intel(R) Xeon(TM) CPU 2.80GHz mit 2.047 MB Speicher Operating system: Microsoft Windows XP Professional Service Pack 2 (Build 2600) Axon Benchmark: Axon-Benchmark-4 (00:00:38.9 sec.) [2367545 pps.] PowX= 7.376 Table created with: Arena 1.1
08, FQ
The German computer chess magazine "CSS" (Computer Schach und Spiele) will go online with a very interesting new webpage. Here can be found reviews, news about computer chess, downloads and much more. I talk by phone with chief editor "Lars Bremer" and Lars told me a little bit about the ideas CSS have. I am sure that Lars the CSS will have success with the ideas and we wish "CSS-Online" a lot of success for the future and ... for the new year 2005 ... all other readers too :-) CSS webpage:
07, FQ Volker Annuss gave Arena
programmer Martin Blume, one year ago, much interesting helps for the
Swiss Tournament System. At the moment Arena have "only" an easy pseudo code
implemented. Volker developing a new code for Arena Chess GUI and you can find
the program (version 1.2 Alpha) on our webpage. It would be great if users can
test the system and can send us comments with our
Download the program under
Furthermore, under
06, FQ
Denis Grafen created six
opening books for the
Furthermore, Denis updated his Arena opening books (our opening book format -*.abk- by Martin Blume). The downloads can be found under
Thanks Denis!
05, FQ The WNCA Word New Chess Association announces: Chess960 Computer World Championship
As part of the Chess Classic Mainz 2005, the WNCA will hold the first official Computer World Championship in Chess960 (Fischer Random Chess). The event will take place on August 11 and 12 in the Rheingoldhalle in Mainz, Germany. The format of the event will be a seven round Swiss tournament. The starting positions of each round will be determined by chance and will only be announced five minutes before each round. For all programmers entering and operating their own programs in this event, we will provide free accommodation in the Hilton Hotel in Mainz for three nights (August 10 to 13). In addition, participants will have free access to all events at the Chess Classic Mainz 2005, including the World Championship Match in Chess960 between reigning World Champion Peter Svidler and his challenger Zoltan Almasi and the title defence of Vishy Anand, seven times winner of the Chess Classic.
There will be a price fund of more than EURO 3 000 for this
event, which will be distributed as follows: If you are a chess programmer and are interested in participating, please send an email to:
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For additional information about the Chess Classic Mainz 2005 and
the Chess960 Computer World Championship visit
04, FQ Two days ago we made a pic from
this wonderful sunset from the gardensite of our house This gave us the inspiration for a new concept of Arena News-Ticker. Perhaps the Arena users like
this pic and our messages we will write in the year 2005 too.
03, FQ Our team had many problems to deal with during the last few months. It all began with virus attacks, "password sharing" in our Parsimony forums, even open offers of downloads of Arena, all of which lead to our utter discontent. These things happened at the time when we were feverishly trying to get Arena ready for publication sometime towards the end of the last year. Before we go any further, we would like now to thank first of all Michael Diosi for his enthusiastic and helpful contribution to Arena. Michael supported us from the very beginning and put in an enormous effort to help the Arena project. Christopher Conkie too had many good ideas regarding the development of the PHP site and in the question of security and just treatment of the membership. Both have left the team now ... Together we had lots of fun developing Arena and would like to continue with the project as our vision has not been exhausted yet! But not at any price!! The work and administration expenses were actually carried out by the forum, and we contributed to Arena during our free time which turned out to be the main stumbling block to the further progress of the project and threatened to dismantle the whole framework. We do not intend to open a new forum in the foreseeable future although we keep thinking about that possibility and intend to keep it open. Therefore we would like to thank all our users who supported our forum. It is as if Arena became a kind of "Deep Arena" for this reason, due to extensive mutual exchange of ideas between our team and our members. Many Arena users are probably disappointed now after participating in the Parsimony forums that also offered a lot of extra features. Nevertheless, we are hopeful
and plan to release some of our pent-up energy in the new 2005.
We wish all the best and much fun with Arena in the year 2005 to all its users!
02, FQ To write about a new
translation file is a highlight for our team. The situation for Frank yesterday ...
Pic 1: No news, no mails, boring day ...
Pic 2: What's up ... mail ... Lisa, a mail ... and a mail without a virus ... seems to be interesting :-)
Pic 3: What a great
day, the first Bulgarian translation by Evgenii Manev in my Outlook ... Have thanks Evgenii Manev! The translation file can be found under "User Files".
I am sure this will be my reaction of sending me tomorrow the Japanese and Chinese - all in one - menu translation ...
01, FQ The release version of the FREE Arena Chess GUI in version 1.1 is available since December 17th, 2004. A lot of interesting new options Martin added in the last year. Please read the update text by programmer Martin Blume, can be found on "Download" selection. Some information more can be found under "About Arena" (at the moment only in German available). It's time to add the FAQ now but to read a bigger FAQ is boring and of course a lot of work for a webmaster. Do you try Martins help files, included in Arena Chess GUI? To the main topics of Arena Chess GUI can be found in the near future different reviews I will write in German. The first are a review about the DGT board and the DGT clock XP. Arena supported the "new" DGT clock XP since version 1.1 with a very interesting new option (show evaluation). The DGT board have a lot of possibilities in combination with Arena Chess GUI ... After the release version of Arena 1.1 we got a lot of new "User Files". Translations updates of the different available menu languages, a new book by Prof. Dr. Djordje Vidanovic and updates from the popular opening books by Harry Schnapp (Arena Main Book) and Weel Deeb. Furthermore, some other new updates can be found in our "User Files" selection. The "Engine, Links" selection was updated yesterday / today. Arena 1.1 will show you in a table the possibilities which WinBoard engines have, like "move now", "analyse mode", "edit mode", or Nalimov tablebases support, ponder support, configured Arena books and much more. Important for this new option is the "engines.ini" file by Pedro Beltran. The including information in engines.ini Arena can be pick up with this file, of course you can pick up the information by yourself. Go to
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