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Subject: Re: does chessbase care about wb engines

Author: Andreas Herrmann

Date: 04:33:14 07/16/01

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On July 16, 2001 at 06:35:07, CLiebert wrote:

>On July 16, 2001 at 02:26:53, ERIQ wrote:
>
>>maybe the problem w/ chessbase interface and wb engines is that, bigbrother does
>>not care about them performing at their best.
>>
>>Why should they ?! wb engines are free, they don't make money from them but they
>>compete strongly w/ fritz,nimzo, etc. their *bread and butter* products.
>>
>>So if wb-engines somehow get dumbed down alittle great. I guess that justifys
>>the price of "pro" engines.
>>
>>  sign,
>>    Eriq
>
>
>First: Why do you think CB put efforts in developing the adapter?
>Second: there are a lots of engines showing no difference in playing strenght.
>If programmers a willing and able to optmize their engines for fritz they could
>do this. Borgstädt did it for Goliath, Kai Skibbe for gromit, other examples are
>Anmon, Faile or TCB. The Natives and wb-adapter-versions of these engines are
>quite at the same level in pratice, did you try one of them?
>But if you like to hold on you big brother theories, feel free ...
>
>Christian

Hi Christian,

But it's a lot of work and testing to make a engine works fine under CB.
It's much more easy, to make the CB Winboard interface 100% winboard compatible,
like in Chess Academy, than to change/optimze the interface in about 100 engines
for CB.

Andreas







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