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Ton wrote:Back to the command line
Thanks for pointing me to this tool.
Did you manage to run this in OSX Mountain Lion?
I'm going through my 'most used ChessBase features' to see if I can skip MS Windows .
Yes, it works great on 10.8.1.
I think I won't be abandoning CB products in the short term (but for plenty of reasons, not just functionality), but I have a lot of smaller databases (Chess Publishing stuff, for instance) which lend themselves very much to HCE's workflow, and which I was always losing track of in CB (or forgetting to update/convert/consolidate/etc.). Leaving everything in PGN and working on OSX for that material is very comfortable and very welcome.
There are still plenty of features I'd like to see (and I apologize to Mark for the flood of wishful thinking), but for day-to-day work, I'm finding HCE to be a thoroughly viable replacement for the big-n-slow CB monstrosity and am really excited to see how the product develops.
I'd like to be able to set the time control like this:
for each player 105 minutes for 35 moves and then 15 additional minutes to finish the game.
Would this be possible?
I like the new program very much, but would like to have the possibility of playing black but not having the board flipped, i.e., to have black still at the top (as with Sigma).
Also, I would like to be able to change the computer's moves (also as with Sigma).
Another helpful feature would be to be able to read cbase (or exachess) files or at least be able to convert them to PGN. I didn't think this was possible, but I saw a comment on another website to the effect that the parameters of the CBH format are now public.
Placing the Opening Explorer's Source selection pulldown" and the move indicators on the tool bar would save a lot of wasted space. IMO On small laptops it is important to get as much useful information on the screen as possible.
JamesCoons wrote:Placing the Opening Explorer's Source selection pulldown" and the move indicators on the tool bar would save a lot of wasted space. IMO On small laptops it is important to get as much useful information on the screen as possible.
Maybe the Opening Explorer's Source selection could be moved into the preferences. Or maybe just a button on the tool bar that pops up the pulldown choices. It takes up a lot of space for something that I usually just set once and forget about.