Author: Albert Silver
Date: 17:57:22 11/19/04
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>It appears ICC bears some blame for not alowing CA8 to use another chess playing
>site in it's program...I believe that is very narrow vision.
>Here is an email sent and received from the CA8 people.
>
>s> Concerning CA8:
>s> Thanks for the information.
>s> It is hard to believe your company did not include ICC access in your
>s> program.
>s> Many people enjoyed matching machine against machine.
>s> I was just going to order CA8 but now I
>s> will not. I am very unhappy about no ICC access!
>s> Is there a reason for this decision? Will
>s> another version come out for ICC?
>s> Can I add Chess Tiger 2004 to CA7.1? Will it have a UCI engine?
>
>The mode ICC is not included in CA8 for the
>following reasons:
> 1) ICC has given consent on the
>support of its zone provided that other portals
>will not be supported
As I designed the ICC client in CA6, I do have some knowledge on this. It was
indeed the reason why other servers such as FICS were not supported. What was
the gain? We got direct support by the ICC people to support some of the newer
functions included in the client, such as the constantly updated list of players
with their status, to name but one of several. There was no easy way to do this,
and it would have meant bombarding their server with commands to provide this
sort of functionality. So it was a deal that allowed Chess Assistant to offer
greater value to the users. I'm sorry to see the support go, but I'm sure the
new server will provide good value to the users. In any case, allow me to add
that I no longer have any say in the matter, other than as a user myself.
Albert
> 2) we have developed our own
>game zone, with more possibilities than one by
>ICC, and we will promote it.
>
> It enables CA8 clients:
>
>a) to play tournaments with prizes
>
>b) to observe games of large tournaments (for
>example Russian Championship)
>
> c) to have online support CA8
>
>d) to watch lectures of grand masters
>
>Chess Tiger 2004 is not added to CA 7.1.
>Differences in force of Chess Tiger 2004 in
>comparison with Tiger 15 are insignificant. UCI
>engine is not provided for Chess Tiger 2004.
>
>--
>Best regards
>Ms. Natalia Kovaleva,
>Support Manager, Convekta Ltd.,
>info@convekta.com
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