If Fritz, Shredder, and Arena don't quite work for you...Convekta is hard at work on a new chess GUI. The planned features look good; among other things, they're aiming for best-of-breed in annotation options.
Even better, they seem to be putting a lot of effort into listening to users, and incorporating their suggestions when they can.
If you'd like to follow the development, and offer your opinion on features, take a look at http://rybkaforum.net. There's a Rybka GUI discussion board that will only appear if you register and log in. Once you've logged in, a new forum should appear: Rybka GUI / Features & Functionality.
They haven't said so directly, but I think that their distribution and marketing of the Rybka chess engine is the reason for the effort. They are selling what is almost certainly the strongest chess engine, but they don't have a complete package; at the moment, they're bundling Rybka with their Chess Openings package for playing and analysis, leading to endless confusion.
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I debated posting a link to a screenshot, but decided against it -- they haven't worked on the graphics yet. They plan to focus on board and piece graphics soon, using vector graphics to draw the pieces. There are screenshots posted in the forum linked above.
Thursday, June 28, 2007
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It never failed to amaze me how ill-designed the GUI's of chessprogram's are. The GUI of a(ny)chessprogram clearly shows signs that it has grown overtime with very little attention for non-technical details. Convekta is one of the worst indeed. But for instance Fritz took me a few weeks to find out how to enter a program by hand without immediately starting to calculate a new move. Arena took me an hour to find out how to stop automatic resign. It's often so bad that it is funny again.
Oh yeah...it's not my strength as a programmer, but I've done a fair amount of interface work.
Because I use the Fritz interface almost every day, I've managed to forget how strange it was when I first started using it; I still notice that it's constantly forgetting where I put that engine window last time. Click, click, click.
The Convekta GUI they're working on has a pretty open beta program, so I signed up to be a beta tester. If I have time to do some careful testing, maybe I can get them to take care of the details...but the release is still several months away, at best.
very nice post, as always. thank you.
yes, ive been all over the Rybka site, and very interesting tidbits hidden in its many nooks and cranies!
warm regards, david
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