Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 22:34:06 05/16/01
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On May 16, 2001 at 20:43:57, Chessfun wrote: >I have read this thread and am a little confused. >If Millennium no longer exists in terms of marketing and selling >Shredder. And Shredder along with SMK go elsewhere either Rebel >or Chessbase, then isn't it likely that Shredder would be ported >to run in that companies existing GUI?. That would be a very likely scenario. But like in all other cases, it depends on how the contract is put together and the individual strategy of SMK. >Therefore without the Shredder GUI being free and the engines >being sold separetely as you wrote above. Will not now UCI simply >die? > >Or even were SMK to try to market and sell Shredder independantly >unless he allowed the GUI to be free and sold the Shredder engine, >then it too would certainly die. Not necesarily. Like everything else related to this market it depends on the pricing and value (strength). The most obvious problem would be lack of specific marketing otherwise performed by Millennium. OTOH it might be possible to reduce the price with fewer people involved. But we'll know the future of UCI when SMK starts communicating with the public again. >This whole Winboard Edition II is somewhat odd IMO as why would anyone >who didn't own the Shredder GUI buy it?. Well, there are WinBoard versions of the engines as well. But what about Gandalf and Deep Shredder you might say. Deep Shredder is a free download and doesn't constitute a part of the price. Gandalf does, but it exists in a WinBoard version. Not to mention the UCI to WinBoard adapter. The value for money is slightly in favour of those with either Shredder and CA, but not by much IMHO. The next one will be called Engine edition due to the name confusion. The objective should be (IMO) to ensure WinBoard and UCI version of each engine. Thereby keeping the value of the package obvious to the consumer. Not that there have been any reason to question the value of the editions so far, but the transparency can always be better. Mogens.
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