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NOTE:
Here can be found update files of Arena Chess GUI versions.
You need one of the latest Arena Setup files, available on Arena webpages
(download selection).
Replace the setup files with the newer beta test update files!

 

Arena 1.0 Beta information by Martin Blume:
Download 1.0-Beta (1,039 Mb, Arena.exe, English language, help files, Gladiator logos included)
   Read the help file!

- bugfixes

Arena 0.956 Beta 5 information by Martin Blume:
Download 0.956-b5 (1,029 Mb, Arena.exe, English language, help files, Gladiator logos included)
   Read the help file!

- early analysis abort feature implemented
- bugfixes

Arena 0.955 Beta 4 information by Martin Blume:
Download 0.955-b4 (1,026 Mb, Arena.exe, English language, help files, Gladiator logos included)
   Read the help file!

- printing improved
- blunder check improved
- book handling and display improved
- bugfixes

Arena 0.954 Beta 3 information by Martin Blume:
Download 0.954-b3 (1,024 Mb, Arena.exe, English language, help files, Gladiator logos included)
   Read the help file!

Note:
New subdirectory: "Books" ... please create this subdirectory into your Arena main directory!

- NEW feature: Blunder check for tournament games implemented.
- book errors removed!
- book import a bit faster!
- engine installation wizard faster!

Arena 0.953 Beta 2 information by Martin Blume:
Download 0.953-b2 (1,020 Mb, Arena.exe, English language, help files, Gladiator logos included)
   Read the help file!

- Swiss system tournament mode / Buchholz rating system!
  Engines / Tournament / Settings / Type "Swiss System"
- Gladiator Logo Option!
  Options / User Data / Your rating - load gladiator logo according to rating
- URL for own public tournaments, HTML table with PGN file!
  Engines / Tournament / Files / PGN-URL

- Bugfixes

Arena 0.952 Beta 1 information by Martin Blume:
Download 0.952-b1 (0,983 Mb, Arena.exe, English language and help files included)
   Read the help file, section "Book Management"!

- Opening Book options!
- Bugfixes

 

Tips:

by Bruce Fox
S25932 Arena color adjustment

by Manfred Rosenboom
http://www.ct.marochess.de/events/2003/
New 2003 GM games (PGN) collect   
(example for tournament option: PGN Random)

by Bruce Fox
Help creating specialized books
S26538

by Martin Blume
Figurine notation
S26586

 


in red:
Comments by programmer Martin Blume

in blue:
Comments by organizer Frank Quisinsky


Arena
0.95 official version:

- forum by Bernhard Schemmann
S25843, v. 0.95   WISHES
(future option "opening book" some ideas)
19th November, 2003: interesting, some of it will follow, maybe not exactly, but similar.

- forum by Agustín Gomila
S25859, S25881, S25893, S25770 v. 0.95 / 0.949b Beta 7  
(Workaround, language file)
19th November, 2003: language file string will be added in 0.955.

- forum by Thomas Lagershausen
S25872, v. 0.95
(Variation board)
19th November, 2003: Fixed in 0.951.

- forum by Michael Diosi
S25879, v. 0.95
(Selecting new fonts)
19th November, 2003: Use the keyboard cursor up/down!

- forum by "Franz Huber"
S25892, v. 0.95
(miscelaneous)
19th November, 2003: Bug fixed, some other problems no time at the moment, I will see in December.

- forum by Johan Huttig
S25895, S25938, v. 0.95
(ponder)
19th November, 2003: Probably no bug???

- forum by Matthias Christoph, Patrick Buchmann, Joachim Rang
S25907, S25911, S26494, v. 0.95
(setup bug, Access-Violation-Error after set TB directory)
19th November, 2003: will be fixed with Arena 0.951.

- forum by Dieter Bürßner
S25914, v. 0.95   WISHES
(Selektives An-/Abschalten von Zügen für die Analyse unter Arena)
19th November, 2003: Not possible so far.

- forum by Dieter Eberle, Graham O'Neill, Tor Lattimore
S25915, S25947, S26435, S26500, v. 0.95
(Turniertabelle hinkt einem Partieresultat hinterher)
19th November, 2003: Strange ...
March 21st, 2004
Frank:
Fixed

- forum by Bernhard Schemmann
S25940, v. 0.95
(Brettdarstellung während der Analyse ?!)
19th November, 2003: I have to check that!

- forum by Dave Kuntzsch
S25990, v. 0.95  
(Running engines at low priority)
19th November, 2003: Fixed at 0.952.

- forum by Jeff GAZET
S26029, v. 0.95
(set time: end of the tournament)
19th November, 2003: Not now, but probably in December.

- forum by Peter Ackermann
S26030, v. 0.95  
(automatische Analysen, verschiedene Ideen / Fragen)
19th November, 2003: 
1. Not so good
2. Already possible
3. I will check
4. To after version 1.0
5. user error

- forum by Roger Brown
S26145, v. 0.95  
(pgn file as basis for a tournament)
19th November, 2003: Fixed in 0.953: too low memory at the user's PC, Arena aborted loading of PGN
Now Arena will be more tolerant and abort later.

- forum by Russell Reagan   WISHES
S26163, v. 0.95  
(caption bar/engine communication wishes)

- forum by Bruce Fox, Antonio Senatore, David Dahlem
S26177, S26179, S26182  v. 0.95  
(trouble loading PGN files)

- forum by Bruce Fox   WISHES
S26178, v. 0.95  
(two future improvements)

- forum by Bruce Fox
S26189, v. 0.95  
(toolbar)

- forum by Jean-François GAZET
S26218, v. 0.95
(enable/disable engine bug and select color to play suggestion)

- forum by Thomas Steiner   WISHES
S26221, v. 0.95  
(export file wish)

 


Arena
0.952 Beta 1 - 0.956 Beta 5

- forum by Jiri Dufek, Mircea Hrubaru, Thomas Wallendik
S26235, S26267, S26338 v. 0.952 Beta 1
(Book options, create books with million of games)
18th November, 2003: Faster with 0.954

- forum by Alexander Schmidt   WISHES
S26248, v. 0.952 Beta 1
(Book options, Ger: Tiefe beim fertigen Buch)
24th November, 2003 (Frank): problem is fixed

- forum by Dave Dahlem   WISHES
S26252, v. 0.952 Beta 1
(Book options, Eng: Repeat start position with colors switched, for new book options too)

- forum by Volker Annuss   IDEA / Swiss system
S26259, v. 0.952 Beta 1
(idea for Swiss system tournaments)
15th November, 2003: Added in 0.953

- forum by Michael Jesdinsky   WISHES
S26281, v. 0.952 Beta 1
(EPD, Abbruch Option)
22nd November, 2003: Added in 0.956

- forum by Thomas Lagershausen
S26283, v. 0.952 Beta 1
(Varianten Zuordnung)
22nd November, 2003: Fixed in 0.956

- forum by Dave Dahlem, Johan Havegheer, Roger Brown, Dieter Eberle, Wolfgang Draeger, Slobodan Stojanovic
S26298 (long thread), S26314 (long thread), S26327, S26331 (long thread), S26345,
S26346, S26361, S26376 v. 0.952 Beta 1 & v. 0.953 Beta 2
(crashing bug after move 79, only if Arena book = on)
20th November, 2003: Fixed in 0.954

- forum by Thomas Wallendik   WISHES
S26338, v. 0.952 Beta 1
(different and interesting wishes for the new opening book options)

- forum by Thomas Lagershausen
S26348, S26446, S26529, S26554, v. 0.95x Beta 2 - Beta 4
(Variantenbrett, Info Fenster Engine 2)
22nd November, 2003: Fixed in 0.956

- forum by Dieter Eberle, Dave Dahlem
S26355, S26362 v. 0.953 Beta 2
(different engines hangup in engine tournament)
March 21st, 2004 Frank:
Fixed

- forum by Jeff GAZET
S26406, v. 0.953 Beta 2
(bug, access violation ...)
20th November, 2003: Fixed in 0.955

- forum by Gerhard Schweiger   WISHES
S26421, v. 0.953 Beta 2
(tournament mode)

- forum by Reza   WISHES
S26424, v. 0.953 Beta 2
(miscelaneous)

- forum by Bernhard Schemmann
S25279, older message, not listed in ASA ...
(miscelaneous)

- forum by Bernhard Schemmann
S26442, v. 0.954 Beta 3
(print options, different bugs)
20th November, 2003: Fixed in 0.955

- forum by Gábor Szõts
S26443, v. 0.954 Beta 3
(rating system in html table: Buchholz / Sonneborn Berger)
20th November, 2003: Fixed in 0.955

- forum by Stefan Knappe
S26445, v. 0.954 Beta 3
(PGN Random, FICS)

- forum by Lech Dobrzanski   WISHES
S26447, v. 0.954 Beta 3
(two points)

- forum by Bruce Fox   WISHES
S26451, v. 0.95  
(book wish)
20th November, 2003: Added in 0.955

- forum by Bernhard Schemann
S26456, v. 0.954 Beta 3
(analyze protocol bug)
20th November, 2003: Fixed in 0.955

- forum by Patrick Buchmann
S25997, v. 0.954 Beta 3
(Gaia & DelphiMax problems)
25th November, 2003: DelphiMAX problem solved by the DelphiMAX programmer
(hope the Gaia programmer an check the problem too)

- forum by Dave Dahlem
S26483, v. 0.954 Beta 3
(blunder check)
20th November, 2003: Improved in 0.956

- forum by Alexander Schmidt, Joachim Helling
S26303, S26387, S26501,v. 0.95
(game results, illegal move, Arasan 7.2)
March 21st, 2004 Frank:
Fixed

- forum by Charles Smith
S26519, v. 0.954 Beta 3
(Games over 200 ply count)
20th November, 2003: I think I've got it fixed! Please test the next version!

- forum by Bruce Fox
S26520, v. 0.954 Beta 3
(sliding the sliders in book management under "probability set by" seems to terminates Arena)
20th November, 2003: Fixed in 0.955 version!

- forum by Norman Mielke
S26522, v. 0.954 Beta 3
(falsches Vorzeichen im tournament PGN file)
22nd November, 2003: Fixed in 0.956

- forum by Bruce Fox
S26539, v. 0.954 Beta 3
(algebraic notation)
20th November, 2003: I will add that feature!

- forum by Bruce Fox
S26559, v. 0.955 Beta 4
(miscelaneous)
Read the comment by Martin: S26581

- forum by Agustín Gomila
S26573, S26592, v. 0.955 Beta 4
(language file)
21st November, 2003: Will be fix with the next version!

- forum by "Franz Huber"
S26589, see also (Zug Zähler ...) S25892, v. 0.95 / v. 0.955 Beta 4
(miscelaneous, Zug Zähler ...)
22nd November, 2003: Fixed in 0.956

- forum by Bruce Fox
S26594, v. 0.955 Beta 4
(book tab)
22nd November, 2003: Fixed in 0.956

- forum by Bruce Fox
S26594, S26595, v. 0.955 Beta 4
(book tab, book tab - analyzes)
22nd November, 2003: Fixed in 0.956

- forum by Ulf Flörsheimer
S26596, v. 0.955 Beta 4
(Bearbeiten von Buchzügen)
22nd November, 2003: Fixed in 0.956

- forum by Engin Üstün, Günther Simon   WISHES
S26537, S26568, S26569, v. 0.955 Beta 4
(tournament table for Swiss system)

- forum by Antonio Senatore   WISHES
S26627, v. 0.956 Beta 5
(different very interesting wishes !!)

- forum by Volker Annuss
S26630, v. 0.956 Beta 5
(*.exe Datei als Kommandozeilenparameter)
24th November, 2003: Read the comment by Martin: S26703

- forum by Thomas Wallendik   WISHES
S26636, v. 0.956 Beta 5
(print options)
24th November, 2003: Read the comment by Frank: S26704

- forum by "Franz Huber"
S26637, S26670, v. 0.956 Beta 5
(Freigeben vom RAM, Variantenbrett, 20 MB RAM for Arena!)
25th November, 2003: Martin need time for optimize, not before Arena 1.0 (comment by Frank)

- forum by Bruce Fox
S26641, v. 0.956 Beta 5
(deleting moves in book)
25th November, 2003: fixed with Arena 1.0 Beta:

- forum by Charles Smith
S26660, v. 0.956 Beta 5
(changing priority in book)
25th November, 2003: fixed with Arena 1.0 Beta:

- forum by Charles Smith   WISHES
S26663, v. 0.956 Beta 5
(miscelaneous)

- forum by Andreas Rothe   WISHES
S26710, v. 0.956 Beta 5
(two interesting wishes to opening book options)

- forum by Andreas Prap   WISHES
S26747
(older wish, coordinates to the exported jpg diagram)

- forum by Michael Jesdinsky
S26638, S26696, v. 0.956 Beta 5
(EPD-Analyseabbruchfunktion)
24th November, 2003: Read the comment by Martin: S26673
27th November, 2003: fixed with Arena 1.0

- forum by Graham O'Neill
S26545, S26676, S26751, v. 0.954 Beta 3 - v. 1.0 Beta
(swiss system, round robin)
27th November, 2003: Comments by Frank: S26871

- forum by Igor Gorelikov
S26449, S26754, v. 0.954 Beta 3 - v. 1.0 Beta
(wrong swiss pairings)
27th November, 2003: Comments by Frank: S26871

 


 

 

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