matematiko wrote:No problemo...Stay away from problematic WinBoards and Polyglots that want to accomplish many variants...many tournaments...many things...for us Yahoo and POGO ICS/emulator players old versions work like a charm.....Do not get me wrong...new versions have better tournament control;, creation of polyglot ini's etc.....for what you want...staying in the past is best.
I am very surprised to hear that because the new versions fixed may bugs that were present in Winboard_x. That some of the development versions I am constantly working on is logical, but we consider the stable version (currently 4.5.3) as far more reliable than Winboard_x. Note that Winboard_x also supports many variants, and that I am not aware of any of the added variants to ever have caused any problem, or in fact have any efect at all unless you actually select them from the menu.
There do not exist any Polyglots that support variants, and as a mere adapter they are completely oblivious of tournaments. And Polyglot 1.4.38b is in fact a quite modern Polyglot, which supports all extensions of WinBoard protocol. I think almost all changes after that are mere bug-fixes, meaning the only 'advantage' of 38b over the newer ones is that it is more buggy...
Is there anything you find problematic in particular, with 4.5.2?