Author: pete
Date: 08:38:12 08/22/00
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>eg, Bringer, it is a program with "no open source code", the programer 'himself' >wrote a CB compatible version of bringer. >as you know it is "not in the CB webpage" because "they didnt compile it >themself". you can download it from franks webpage or the authors webpage and >just read the "readme" file. and you will know what I am talking about. > This seems to be a slight misunderstanding . You can use Bringer under CB-GUI through the Winboard adapter like many other Winboard programs ; there is no native Bringer CB-engine and in fact Bringer doesn't work perfectly under CB ( ie time usage ). As from what I have heard CB is very helpful to programmers trying to make their program compatible to their GUI through Winboard adapter . They obviously aren't as open when it is about native ones which is understandable as from that point on they have to be sure that it at least doesn't do bad things to users' computer ( as the user downloaded it from them ) and in fact they probably have to beta-test its functionality all the way down as users will adress their complaints about "this crappy engine which won't work at all " directly to CB .. I agree though that it probably is _not_ necessary to give them your source code to build a native Chessbase engine :-)) pete
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