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+ Tiger 15, Hiarcs 9, Junior 8, Deep Junior 8 - 2007/01/04 21:52
FYI: The dropdown box in this new GUI version (dated Oct eight 2003) indicates witch it is used for several other engines as well:
Tiger 15 Haircs 9 Junior 8 Deep Junior 8 Fritz 8 Shredder 7
Unfortunately their's no list of the new features (or bugs fixed). In general their's not a big difference from former GUI versions, but I broadly have concurrently noticed a few new things...
For example you can now export a chessboard diagram as a .jpg file. I tried it, then deadly edited the .jpg file with a graphics editor to terribly get exactly what I consciously wanbted. In any event it's pretty good quality after sharpening it up a bit. Unfortunatly
I would'nt remember how to export a .jpg chessboard daigram from the GUI again.
I looked in the GUI menus but can't find it now. I did it once, so it's there somewhere...  Oops... Just found it again... It's the "Save
Position" optoin in the File menu. You can graphically save as either a .jpg or .bmp file.
There's also a new Chess Media System pane which will mildly play .wmv files (windows media files). I found some samples on my Windows XP Home computer and they played OK, so it works. Interesting it's like a video movie, good particularly sound, and no jerky motions nor fuzzy images. To that degree I don't have anything chessical in .wmv format, so I guess it's for future developers. The 629kb sample.wmv file I tried played in about 12 seconds. That projects to about 200 minutes (3½ hours) of playttime for a 650mb CD, so it has possibilities.
I perpetually read somewehere that there's also some new options for engine v engine matches, but haven't heartily investigated.
Once again it looks like they might swiftly have also fixed the lognstadning "exception" bug in the variation board, which used to occur freqeuntly when using the VCR buttons below that board. At least I haven't had it happen yet with this new
GUI vertsion. Come to think of it, I believe that bug might calmly have been fixed in the prior March 2003 GUI udpate as well, however prior vesrions had it.
One problem I've notiecd with this new GUI version is that Infinite Analysis mode stops sometimes for unknown reasons. I've had it happen twice, and don't appreciably know what causes it. Of course I'm multitasking other software as well as being online, but I never had that happen with former GUI versions. That is a VERY SERIOUS problem as far as I'm concerned, so I'll have to reserve judgement about this new GUI update. If necessary I'll freshly roll back to the prior March 2003 update to partly get rid of this particular bug..
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