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a free graphical user interface for chess.

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Arena: How to have the engine only analyze and let me play as both White and Black

I enjoy watching chess videos where, say, an opening is analyzed and besides the main line, the lecturer also explores alternatives and explains why they are bad or good. I would like to do this exploration on my own. The way I imagine doing it is…
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How to switch the engine off in Arena?

I use Arena. I want to input my game and create a pgn. But I have a problem, because if I make a move, the engine automatically makes a move as well. I want to make moves for white and for black. I don't know how to switch the engine off.
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Assigning Engines in Arena

How does one assign a specific engine to a specific color in Arena? I load a PGN file and move to a specific point in the game. At that time I want to assign Engine A to play black and Engine B to play white. Then when I hit the calculate or demo…
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How do I set up an engine never to resign in Arena GUI?

Is there a way to set up the engine in a way it never resignes? I want to practice mating with bishop and knight but after the engine reaches the depth it can tell it will be checkmated it resigns. I would like to suppress that.
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Software for reading aloud the moves of a chess games in Arena or SCID vs PC

I have just downloaded the Arena and SCID vs PC GUI clients. Both seem wonderful and work seamlessly with most of the chess engines like Rybka and Stockfish. I can't wait to get started by analysing the chess games of the masters. I also have a…
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How do you have Arena show the second and third best move in analysis?

How do you have Arena show the second and third best moves in analysis? I seem to be able to only see the evaluation for the engine's best move.
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Removing engine thinking (variations) PGN comments in Arena Chess

I setup a position in Arena. Then lets engine vs engine plays it after pressing 'Demo' button. The problem is Arena put engine thinking as well into the moves list. (in green font). Check the screenshot. How can I remove those marked in green font?…
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Arena Question - How Do I Set it So Arena Has a Time Limit But I Don't?

I just download the arena chess program which is a chess playing GUI. Frankly, I'm kind of lost. I am trying to play chess games with the engines that come with it. How can I set it so that the computer has a time limit for moves, but I don't? …
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Looking for a Horrible-by-design chess engine

I am looking for a really-bad-by-design chess engine, compatible with Arena chess GUI. Not just lowering engine power.. I have tried lowering Stockfish's power, and it didn't suit my needs, so I am looking for a weak one!
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Why can't I castle on Arena chess?

I play chess a lot against Arena (the GUI thing), but I can't seem to castle. The requirements for castling are met, just the castling itself doesn't work. I'm on windows.
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Reading UCI Engine output in Arena Chess

So for the most part I understand what I am looking at, but i have two questions about the first piece of data. Here is an example that I am looking at. Firstly, the first column has values 1/4, 1/8, 2/17, 3/17. I'm pretty sure the numerator of…
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Multiple opening books in Arena?

In Arena, you can select an "Arena main book" which will be the chess opening book that will be displayed in the Book/TB tab. However, is there any way to merge multiple opening books into that tab? It would be useful to combine a couple of good…
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How do you hide evaluation scores in the arena chess GUI?

Is there a way to hide the evaluation scores while playing a game using the arena GUI?
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How to view Arena Chess analysis in a chess program?

I made an analysis of a chess game in Arena Chess with stockfish engine. The analysis completed successfully. My question is how can I watch this analysis in a chess program. Arena chess says it made the analysis output to C:\Program Files…
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Debugging my chess engine through the Arena GUI

I coded (with visual studio 2019 on windows 10) an ultra naive chess engine that complies with UCI engine interface rules. Before starting to develop it in more fancy ways, I want to make sure that I can debug my code via using my engine from a…
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