Author: Frank Quisinsky
Date: 10:25:54 07/30/00
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On July 30, 2000 at 12:23:10, Mogens Larsen wrote: >On July 30, 2000 at 11:43:54, pavel wrote: > >>hi guys, >> I am planning to buy a "strong" commercial winboard engine. >>AFAIK there are 3 commercial winboard engines, shredder3, wbnimzo, and Diep (not >>sure though). are there any other I am missing? > >A WinBoard compatible version of the danish program Gandalf will be released >sometime in the nearby future. Presumeably after the Mindgames event. Look at >the results from Frank's CCE tournament for an estimation of the strength. >There's also Capture, Patzer and Zarkov, but I'm not sure if they're >commercially available as WinBoard engines. I'm planning to purchase Gandalf >when it's released, because it appears very strong and because it's a danish >program. > >>As I heard shredder4 does not >>have a winboard version. Also I am confused about nimzo, which one is the >>latest? nimzo 7.32 or nimzo 2000b?? > >Only the Nimzo 2000 package contains a WinBoard version AFAIK. > >>I am assuming shredder is strongest among the winboard engines.......or is it >>nimzo? > >No, Gandalf :o)). > >Best wishes... >Mogens Hi Mogens, yes I think Gandalf is in my opinion one of the strongest 5 chess programs at the moment. I think that all professional programmers have interest to get more money for his work and a CD with GUI + WinBoard engine is that who the most user have interest. The user is the king ! (give his money) But, please not a new engine concept or engine with copy protection ! The false way ! It is interesting ... Yes we will use WinBoard engines, we use the work from 60-100 programmers but the own program has a copy protection or run not under other GUIs, Chessmaster 8000 is the youngest example when I understand the messages correct :-)) It is curious, the professionls will use the work from the amateurs for an better marketing and give not that what the user will ! I mean all new GUIs are compatible to WinBoard, or is this false ? The first GUI with an engine concept are Chess-Base GUIs with the engines Analyses 1.0, Hiarcs 4, Fritz 1.2 ... Now I think over 100 versions from engines for Chess-Base GUis. When the concept from an other firm is good (a lot of compatible programs) is a new engine concept OK. But one engine and a copy protection for other GUIs is ... (I will not say this). On the other hand I have more people on my webpage which have interest on Chessmaster, this is good ! Regards Frank
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