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Subject: Re: Chesspartner and other GUIs

Author: Rob Shultz

Date: 17:50:10 09/20/03

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On September 20, 2003 at 09:17:47, Lex Loep wrote:

>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
>

And this is why I continue to purchase ChessPartner products.  You take
outstanding care of the people who purchase your products!  :-)

Rob

>
>>
>>>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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