Arena, Buglist and Wishes

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"Wishes"

S22108	0.93 Arena development
S22338	0.93 Arena development, tournament tables!
S22407	0.93 Arena development, tournament tables!
S23514	0.93 Arena development, Linux
S23573	0.93 Arena development, New options (future of Arena)
T16	0.92 Luca	18.12.02	- human in tournaments	FQ: Feature will be added in v.0.94!
S22426	0.93 Eike Hinner	25.05.03	- human vs. machine	FQ: Feature will be added in v.0.94!
S22798	0.93 S. Stojanovic	11.06.03	- 3 different things
S22816	0.93 S. Stojanovic	14.06.03	- menu system
S22817	0.93 Sergio Martinez	14.06.03	- tourney features
S22967	0.93 Geoff Westwood	19.06.03	- time control	FQ: We wait of an answer ...
S23096	0.93 Andrew Wagner	30.06.03	- zippy password	FQ: OK, no changes!
S23112	0.93 Günther Simon	30.06.03	- debug file
S23115	0.93 Lars Bremer	30.06.03	- live games, pgn
S23166	0.93 Gábor Szõts	04.07.03	- font, display	MD: Feature will be added in v.0.94!
S23318	0.93 Frank Quisinsky	16.07.03	- simulate faster hardware	FQ: Feature will be added in v.0.94!
S23320	0.93 Frank Quisinsky	16.07.03	- evaluation differnce, epd
S23321	0.93 Frank Quisinsky	16.07.03	- hash-booster	MB: 1) For Winboard engines this is not possible, as each engine alocates hash in different ways. 2) For UCI a re-start is not needed.
S23402	0.93 Frank Quisinsky	23.07.03	- wm tourney
S23404	0.93 Frank Quisinsky	23.07.03	- opening book options
S23406	0.93 Frank Quisinsky	23.07.03	- prognosis/random tourney
S23561	0.93 Frank Quisinsky	01.08.03	- bench test
S23563	0.93 Frank Quisinsky	01.08.03	- trash
S23571	0.93 Frank Quisinsky	01.08.03	- menu structur
S23581	0.93 Andrew Prap	01.08.03	- capacity, pgn
S23586	0.93 Dieter Eberle	01.08.03	- compete game analyzes
S23615	0.93 Martin Fierz	05.08.03	- EPD analyze
S23686	0.93 Michael Diosi	11.08.03	- for blind chess players
S23920	0.93 Günther Simon	25.08.03	- board switch for ICC
S24646	0.947 Engine Üstün	25.08.03	- different tourney modes

"Buglist"

T17	Lars Goran Larsson	27.01.03	- ics problems
S20584	Ingo Bauer	10.03.03	- SOS, tbs	MB: Solution not found yet!
S22860	0.92 Michael Scheidl	17.03.03	- miscellaneous	MB: PGN textcomments cut: Reason unknown/Shutdown dialog: Reason unknown/ Variations to be done, not very soon !
S22223	0.93 Th. Lagershausen	15.05.03	- t-mode, pgn	MB: Tournaments with PGN startposition: Fixed in version 0.94 !
S22224	0.93 Rudolf Klamert	15.05.03	- autoplayer	MB: Autoplayer breaks sometimes: Reason unknown !
S22238	0.93 Dieter Eberle	15.05.03	- pgn, rounds	MB: Fixed in version 0.94 !
S22253	0.93 Dieter Eberle	15.05.03	- personalities	MB: Fixed in version 0.94 !
S22258	Norman Mielke	16.05.03	- SOS, time problems	MB: See 20584 !
S22271	0.93 Rudolf Klamert	16.05.03	- autoplayer	MB: Autoplayer breaks sometimes under XP: Reason unknown !
S22287	0.93 NN (F. Huber)	17.05.03	- mate solving, edit	MB: Illegal engine moves are not accepted and will not be accepted in the future !
S22317	0.93 Armin Dürr	18.05.03	- EPD positions, t-mode	MB: Feature added in version 0.94 !
S22375	Interesting thread	21.05.03	- Betsy	FQ: OK, solved!
S22416	Hinrich Buhr	23.05.03	- Crux / Arena, resign	MB: Crux resign: Will be fixed in version 0.94 !
S22527	0.93 Peter Ackermann	28.05.03	- analyze mode	MB: Analyze mode: I will check and probably fix it in version 0.94 !
S22540	0.93 Peter Ackermann	28.05.03	- analyze mode	MD: See answer to M22527 !
S22541	0.92/3 Michael Scheidl	28.05.03	- miscellaneous	MD: See answer to M22860 !
S22561	0.93 Uri Blass	30.05.03	- draw	MB: Draw adjudication will be set to a much higher value in version 0.94 !
S22592	0.93 Volker Annuss	31.05.03	- miscellaneous	MB: 1) No transparent desktop icon in the future. 2) Help for Carousell(Rutsch) tournament now added. 3) Number of possible moves should be correct !
S22594	0.93 Alex Schmidt	31.05.03	- UCI protocol	FQ: OK, no changes!
S22604	0.93 Joachim Rang	01.06.03	- EPD positions, t-mode	FQ: OK, same as 22317
S22700	0.93 Jeff GAZETT	05.06.03	- select engine	MB: Select engine: Fixed in version 0.94 !
S22846	0.93 Richard Pijl	15.06.03	- analyze mode	MB: Dot too much: Fixed in version 0.94 !
S22895	0.93 S. Stojanovic	17.06.03	- logo problem	MB : Feature added in version 0.94!
S23072	0.93 Volker Annuss	27.06.03	- log files	MB: 1) Analyze mode: I will check and probably fix it in version 0.94 2) logfile : I will check and probably fix it in version 0.94 !
S23086	0.93 U.Blass, D.Bürßner	29.06.03	- ponder, force and new	MB: Main point seems to me: Stop pondering when you recieve a "new" command. If you got the "new", but couldn't react to it (no CPU time just now when you need it), buffer the input in an array of strings. !
S23090	0.93 Steven Wollkind	29.06.03	- pgn, analyze mode	MB: Analyze mode: I will check and probably fix it in version 0.94 !
S23143	Uri Blass	01.07.03	- Movei, ponder	MB: Changes in protocol implementation would result in a long betatest. So I will check after version 0.94 is released !
S23146	0.93 Dieter Bürßner	02.07.03	- ponder, force and new	MB: I think I have to contact D.Bürßner to fully understand !
S23221	0.93 Volker Annuss	10.07.03	- castling possibilities	MB: Not too important, but I will probably fix it in version 0.94 !
S23263	0.93 Rudolf Klamert	13.07.03	- autoplayer 2
S23415	0.93 Andrew Prap	24.07.03	- printing	MB: 1) please check if you have values with a dot (.) or comma (,) or something else under margins/column in the printing dialogue and replace the values with integers. Perhaps Arena expects the wrong numbering format, maybe a comma instead of dot and runs into a converting problem. 2) Will be fixed in v.0.94!
S23451	0.93 Martin Fierz	26.07.03	- ICC	MB: Do not use any other time management tool like timeseal. If you log in just with the letter 'g' as guest, it should work automatically or manually.
S23564	0.93 Peter Berger	01.08.03	- analyzes
S23615	0.93 Martin Fierz	04.08.03	- EPD analyze
S23956	0.93 Volker Pittlik	29.08.03	- analyze / AnMon
S24080	0.93 Jouni Uski	10.09.03	- Analyze mode

"FRC"

S22377 S22591 S22623 S22654 S22810 ... S22897 S23236 S23379 (Reinhard Scharnagl) ...

MB: "FRC"-Messages: I am not going to comment on chess variants issues in the near future, because I have to concentrate on more important things. Implementation of FRC in Arena works, except some very rare and constructed positions that never happen in a game and have to specially set-up. Actually, if these positions occur in a game, they pose no problem for Arena, only if they are set up by hand !