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From: | Albert Silver |
Subject: | [Bug-gnubg] GNU notes |
Date: | Sun, 15 Sep 2002 23:35:13 -0300 |
Hi, I’ve
been looking quite a bit at the program, being releatively new to it, and
compiled a small list of items I thought worth mentioning. These are in no
specific order and there is one case of a bug. 1)
So I’ll start with the bug. I
set up a position and saved it, yet every single time I load it, it shows up
with 17 (!) pieces with an extra one on the bar and another taken off. If I
enter Edit and click on either piece they disappear, but it still shows when I
load it. I can zip this, but should I send it to this mailing list or someone
specific? 2)
I constantly see the word “chequer”
written. Is that British or something? I have never know it that way and
usually see it written as “checker” 3)
The statistics do not take into
account changes in evaluation on moves made after a match analysis. On a few
occasions I have asked GNU to roll out a move to confirm its criticism and have
seen it change the evaluation. Soemtimes for the better, and sometimes to tell
me I am a bigger bonehead than it had initially thought. The statistics window (and the Game Record where the punctuation commentary is) do
not update to take these changes into account. They should of course IMHO. 4)
Jeff’s e-mail to the list
repeats a problem I had with a top player I was helping. The official GNU BG
page does not show a clear way to get the downloadable Windows file, and
neither does it link to the right page. That makes GNU all but impossible to
get. Furthermore, I would like to suggest that to simplify the task of
downloading, it be made extremely clear that there is only ONE file to download
and what that file is, *unless* the
propective users enjoy compiling these files not to mention even know what
compiling is. 5)
Perhaps a letter could be added to
the Game Record to indicate what kind of error was made, whether a cube
decision or a checker move. I had in mind something basic such as 13/8? (D). Though perhaps that makes the space required for a move too
big. Perhaps underlining it otherwise. 6)
Account Manager! This would be a great addition to GNU.
It is something that is truly excellent in Snowie and that is the ability to
tally the results and see your average performance. It would keep track of checker
play errors, cube decision errors, and luck, and allow users to see how they
have done rceently. I’d also include a possibility to see how a player
did by increments. Ex: it has kept track of the results/stats of 1000 games.
Not only could I ask it to show me how I’ve done for the last 100 (just
as Snowie), but I could ask it to show the average results for every 100 games.
Another idea would be to have it keep track of how a player did in DMP or
1-point game situations. 7)
Save the different board
profiles/styles. I have a few preferred combinations of colors, but right now
have been keeping track of them in separate directories I created for the
settings files. It would be nice if a user had some presets, not to mention the
possibility to create and save their own. 8)
The “skins” for GNU are
nice, and my favourite by far so far is “mac”. Unfortunately, I
think this feature will be used by very very few users. If it were possible to
change the skins from within the GUI, this would be appreciated as a
full-fledged feature. 9)
I would have the program create a
Saved Games directory and automatically propose to save games and positions in
it. Right now it saves it in the main directory which is less than idea IMO. 10)
Speaking of saving and loading. When
importing a file format such as .sgg, it should propose to filter the files so
that the user isn’t forced to filter through a long ist
of irrelevant files. 11)
BTW, I was surprised to see that
that Jellyfish position format isn’t supported yet. It would be a nice
feature as it would allow users to easily export their positions to either
Snowie or Jellyfish. Right now they cannot. If I set up a new match and then
edit it to create a test position, I cannot save it into the JF game or match
formats. Furthermore, a complete decription of the Jellyfish position format
(.pos) can be found at their site: http://effect.webbie.net/fspec.htm Best regards, Albert |
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