Author: Roger Brown
Date: 09:14:23 09/12/05
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>LOL Nice answer! >I just wonder why there is so much aggression against Chessbase? What wrong have >they done? Other than making a very good package of interface, online chess and >great engines like Fritz, Shredder, Junior etc. ? Hello Torstein, I disagree, in fact there seems to be quite a strong pro chessbase sentiment in CCC, particularly in the light of recent discussions here. For my part I own several of their products (all the above you listed) so I have no problem with them *BUT* there seems to be this mood that all engines must be UCI compatible so as to be used in the chessbase gui otherwise the engine is somehow deficient. I have a problem with that attitude because the chessbase engines are useable only in their gui. The attitude seems to be if you cannot be used in the chessbase gui then you are no good. The chessbase gui is a professionally done gui etc. but that attitude stifles progress by assuming that the chessbase gui is *IT*. I wonder what the feeling would be if tomorrow the chessbase line of engines could be used outside of the chessbase gui? Wow..... :-) >Regarding Fritz 9, I am one of the "stupid" custommers who will buy it. It is your money. You earned it, you spend it. No-one can say anything about the choices you make... If it >can comment upon my games in, a for me more understandable form, it actually >means more than engine strength! The point! That is why I find the it-must-work-in-the-chessbase-gui lobby a bit hard to understand. There are other features that a user pays for apart from engine strength which most basement tournaments cannot test because the users are unwilling/unable to run a statistically significant number of games at a meaningful timecontrol. Those desirable features may be present in another gui. Why stifle development? And by the way, based on experience, I would >not count on Fritz 9 beeing a weak engine. All odd numbered versions have been >great so far! :-) Fritz is not a weak engine. Fritz 5.32 is a monster that can crush about 99.99% of chessplayers on decent hardware. Later
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