Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:02:09 10/19/00
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On October 19, 2000 at 10:59:28, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>On October 19, 2000 at 01:00:59, Christophe Theron wrote:
>
>>On October 19, 2000 at 00:01:37, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>
>>>On October 18, 2000 at 16:02:20, Christophe Theron wrote:
>>>
>>>>On October 18, 2000 at 15:05:03, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>>>
>>>>>Hi,
>>>>>
>>>>>the sound from the new Rebel / Tiger CD is very good in my eyes !
>>>>>For me is important ...
>>>>>
>>>>>Is the new Tiger version compatible to Chess Assistant and is Gambit Tiger
>>>>>compatible to Chess Assistant. I think the best way to play engine - engine
>>>>>matches with WinBoard engines and Tiger.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>The engines provided on the Rebel 11 CD cannot be used within Chess Assistant 5
>>>>program.
>>>>
>>>>As for the availability of Chess Tiger 13.0 and Gambit Tiger 1.0 under Chess
>>>>Assistant, you must ask directly to Convekta, the producer of Chess Assistant.
>>>
>>>The Tiger.dll (version 12e) for Chess Assistant and Chess Tiger 12e for the
>>>Chess Partner GUI is the same.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>Yes it's true, but the DLL of Chess Tiger 13.0 (or Gambit Tiger 1.0) is not
>>compatible anymore with the Tiger 12.0 DLL.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I think I can get the best answere of my
>>>questions from the Tiger programmer, the reason for me to ask here. OK, now I
>>>have a good answere.
>>>
>>>Interesting for me and I think for tousends WinBoard Fans is the questions ...
>>>Can I played with Tiger and WinBoard Engines ?
>>
>>
>>
>>You can use any Winboard engine under the Rebel-Tiger II GUI.
>>
>>But you cannot play Tiger against a Winboard engine directly under the GUI.
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>> I think you have not an interest
>>>that user can play with your program under differnet GUI. This is not a problem
>>>with a WinBoard engine. The most user have fun on engine matches with 1 PC and
>>>have not an autoplayer.
>>>
>>>OK, Tiger is not a WinBoard engine but I think a good way is Chess Assistant. Is
>>>Chess Tiger now not compatible to Chess Assistant is your programs for engine -
>>>engine fans not interested. User could not played against other, I mean 65 free
>>>other programs, under the same GUI !
>>>
>>>For other programmer, the best example is Steen Suurballe with his comercial
>>>program Gandalf, is it important that user can played under his favorite program
>>>under his favorite GUI.
>>>
>>>I hope that all programs are compatible to all GUIs because this is good for the
>>>user.
>>
>>
>>
>>We do our part by providing compatibility with the standard engine interface
>>(Winboard) in our GUI.
>>
>>
>>
>> Christophe
>
>Hi Christophe,
>
>thanks for your new information.
>In my eyes is the configuration from WinBoard Engines under the Chess Partner
>GUI not easy. Lex make good readme files and in the latest months also updates
>(good service) but I think that 10 examples for the configuration from WinBoard
>Engines (examples with a configuration file) is for the user very interesting.
>
>Best
>Frank
You are right. This is doable, maybe we could provide these examples on our
sites (either the Lokasoft site or the Rebel Home Page).
Maybe CCC can also be the place where people can exchange their configuration
files. I don't believe Lex has tried all the Winboard engines that are around...
Christophe
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