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Reasons for upgrading/buying

Posted By: mtuhtan
Date: Saturday, 9 July 2011, at 8:41 p.m.

In Response To: eXtreme Gammon 2 is released. (eXtreme Gammon)

Two weeks ago I said I would write my experiences with XG2 beta, for those who weren't yet sure if they should buy it. Now I think it is appropriate time to do it.

Disclaimer: I have no financial interest with XG, I'm regular user.

Here are the reasons why I think it is worth upgrading or buying XG2:
- It is fast. And when I say fast, I mean very fast. And when I mean very fast, I mean veeery fast!
- EPC count
- You can play with clock
- Batch Rollouts. Before, when I went somewhere over a weekend, I opened 15 instances of XG1 to do 15 parallel rollouts when I'm gone. To make long story short - it was PITA. Now I just select files and/or positions I want to rollout and when I'm ready to go on a weekend, I just need two mouse clicks and I'm done.
- Export as publication. Nice new feature that enables exporting position as B/W images to Word, ready for printing.
- Better navigation trough moves. Fast navigation not only trough errors, but even trough close best moves.
- Better html export of matches
- Auto save. Remember those 15 parallel instances with rollouts, mentioned above? It was pretty frustrating coming home from a weekend realizing there was power shortage and everything is gone.
- Importing SGF files (GnuBG save files)
- Position export with text on the side (either left or right) of the board
- Buttons for quick change between $, DMP, GG and GS
- Last but not the least - excellent customer service!

I'm sure there are many more reasons I forgot to mention, but I hope you got the point.

P.S. Xavier, when does XG3 training start?

Messages In This Thread

• eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
  eXtreme Gammon -- Saturday, 9 July 2011, at 7:45 p.m.
  • Reasons for upgrading/buying
    mtuhtan -- Saturday, 9 July 2011, at 8:41 p.m.
    • Reasons for upgrading/buying
      eXtreme Gammon -- Saturday, 9 July 2011, at 9:38 p.m.
  • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
    Art Grater -- Saturday, 9 July 2011, at 8:45 p.m.
    • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
      eXtreme Gammon -- Saturday, 9 July 2011, at 9:08 p.m.
      • USBGF name problem fixed
        eXtreme Gammon -- Saturday, 9 July 2011, at 9:30 p.m.
        • USBGF name problem fixed
          Art Grater -- Saturday, 9 July 2011, at 10:14 p.m.
  • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
    christian munk-christensen -- Sunday, 10 July 2011, at 7:18 a.m.
    • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
      mtuhtan -- Sunday, 10 July 2011, at 7:42 a.m.
      • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
        christian munk-christensen -- Sunday, 10 July 2011, at 5:56 p.m.
        • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
          Timothy Chow -- Sunday, 10 July 2011, at 6:04 p.m.
          • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
            christian munk-christensen -- Sunday, 10 July 2011, at 7:29 p.m.
        • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
          Matt Cohn-Geier -- Sunday, 10 July 2011, at 7:36 p.m.
          • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
            christian munk-christensen -- Sunday, 10 July 2011, at 8:56 p.m.
            • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
              mtuhtan -- Sunday, 10 July 2011, at 9:12 p.m.
              • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
                christian munk-christensen -- Sunday, 10 July 2011, at 10:08 p.m.
                • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
                  eXtreme Gammon -- Sunday, 10 July 2011, at 11:33 p.m.
                  • eXtreme Gammon 2 is released.
                    christian munk-christensen -- Monday, 11 July 2011, at 7:08 a.m.