Advanced Chess Program with options for every skill level.Features:
Easy-to-use and configurable Interface- Adjust Arena according to your personal preferences!
Approx. 250 chess engines run under Arena. Strengths vary from very strong to easy to beat, some have adjustable strength .
Support of the free and publicly available protocols UCI and Winboard for the communication between GUI and Engine.
Detailed information - Analyze lines tell everything about the thinking process of the chess engines!
Unique tournament features - Find out, how the chess engines compete against each other.
Playing over the Internet online games against people worldwide.
Simple move input and animated piece movement.
Possibility to analyze your own or other games afterwards automatically.
Extensive Help
Printing - clearly laid out output on paper.
What´s New in version 3.0:
UCIFilter fixed+improved
Removing engines from memory after aborting tournament mode works now
It is now possible to make an engine weaker in ICS mode
Mainlines can be saved as variations in PGN (optional)
Nodes/sec now works for Winboard engines
New option for Knodes/second instead of nodes/second
Sound at start of Arena now hearable
Autoplayer repaired
Wine tournament bug fixed: engines can restart now
Wine font bug fixed: If fonts Arial or Courier New not available, choose appropriate one, not random one
Wine help file reader added as separate download
Wine does not show Chess Merida Arena´s mask. Mask disabled on wine, so graphics is not spoiled
If no font "Wingdings" available (common on Wine), show simple ´+´,´=´ and ´-´ characters, not wrong ones
Inactive buttons in tournament mode visible, not invisible, but inactive as they should
Auto-Analysis: Comprehensive output in report starts with 1
Auto-Analysis: Bug removed where positions were not analyzed
Auto-Analysis: New option for adding parameter info in report file
In PGN output duplicate game result in braces removed, e.g.: {1-0 Arena adjudication} 1-0
Superfluous "..." after last move in PGN removed
Winboard options "memory", "cores" and "egtpath" now globally settable
Bug in combo boxes in Winboard options removed
Option "Large Logos" works again