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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