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Subject: Re: CSTal-2 vs Hiarcs 7.32 (Game 5)

Author: blass uri

Date: 11:12:04 09/20/99

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On September 20, 1999 at 08:33:02, Thorsten Czub wrote:

>On September 20, 1999 at 00:58:02, Harald Faber wrote:
>
>>Then a hint on the homepage that this version is broken and not useful for
>>playing would be very useful, right?
>
>The homepage says this:
>
>
>
>
> Chess System Tal Version 2.50 pre-alpha version for download only by bone-fide
>chess program developers who have
> already purchased a copy of CSTal II..CSTal II support files are required for
>proper operation.
> CSTal 2.50 forms the basis of Oxford Softworks designs for Chess System Tal
>III. Chess System Tal III will be an
> open-format multiple engine, N-Brain and user interface system, using Windows
>95/98/NT. Operation is fully Windows
> compatible and multi-threaded.
> CSTal 2.50 comes with multiple engines and N-Brain engine choosers .. This
>version is a sampler, Oxford Softworks expects
> to release open-format source code for any bone-fide developer to use to:
>
>
>          add engines to CSTal III
>
>
>          display information from an added engine in the interface
>
>
>          allow for development of intelligent N-Brain choosers
>
>
>          add chess position specific elements such as opening books, end game
>table bases, king-pawn handlers,
>          middlegame handlers and so on.

I think that the first sentences in the homepage should be:
"Chess system Tal 2.50 is clearly weaker than other versions of Cstal."
and in this case everything is going to be clear.



>
>>BTW you alyways complained that everybody who got different and much worse
>>results than you get used a broken version, if it was CST1 or whatever.
>
>Right. With CSTal1 it was the same. some people like to test broken versions
>:-))

I do not think that people want to test a broken version.
I think that this is a misunderstanding.

Uri



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