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Subject: Re: Chesspartner and other GUIs

Author: Lex Loep

Date: 06:17:47 09/20/03

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On September 20, 2003 at 09:11:49, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote:

>On September 20, 2003 at 09:00:53, Russell Reagan wrote:
>
>>What are your opinions of the Chess Partner interface?
>
>It's really a very very very very good interface ;-)
>

I agree :))

>>I see that it supports Winboard and UCI engines. How is the support? Does it
>>work as well as Winboard/Arena?
>
>It should be fully compatible.
>
>Should you find a problem nevertheless (extremely unlikely), you'll find that
>Lex will actually try to fix it.
>
>>How is it for running computer vs. computer matches? I see that it does not
>>currently support computer vs. computer tournaments, but this could be
>>simulated by manually setting up matches I guess.
>
>This feature is currently in betatest, so I suspect there will be
>an update for this in the not-so-far-away future.


This feature makes its debut as part of the Rebel 12 release. And as
always the updated ChessPartner components will become available for
the various other packages such as Deep Sjeng, Chess Tiger 15... etc.

Lex


>
>>Primarily I'm interested in running computer vs. computer matches and
>>tournaments, as well as playing on chess servers.
>
>Full support for FICS and ICC is included.
>
>>Also, what is the best way to play Chessbase engines against other non->Chessbase commercial engines (ex. Lokasoft).
>
>This depends on the engine. But auto232 almost always works.
>
>>I believe the Chessbase or Fritz interfaces support Winboard and UCI (via a
>>string of adapters),
>
>Note that the adaptors may handicap the programs and give a false impression.
>
>Fritz has UCI support, but it has issues.
>
>>so some of the engines from Lokasoft should work via
>>Winboard/UCI (ex. Deep Sjeng and Rebel 12), but what
>>about Tiger from Lokasoft? Will it work in the Chessbase or Fritz interfaces?
>
>Tiger is available as a native Fritz engine. The Tiger for Fritz doesn't
>work under ChessPartner and the Tiger for ChessPartner doesn't work under
>Fritz.
>
>Deep Sjeng is compatible with pretty much everything, I don't know
>about Rebel...(Ed?)
>
>>Or will Fritz/Junior/etc. work under Chesspartner?
>
>Shredder works, the others don't.
>
>--
>GCP



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