Author: Mogens Larsen
Date: 09:36:44 10/13/00
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On October 13, 2000 at 11:28:40, Harald Faber wrote: >Most of the people have more than one chess program. What do you think is the >reason? >Hint: read Uris posting. Is it really necessary in this case? Hint: Read original message by Mike Adams and subjectline. >No clones, the possibility to tune the engine is very limited. That doesn't exactly reduce their presence. >I get the impression that you only try to provoke here. >No serious thinking guy would compare Winboard with any other commercial chess >program and say that they are the same, No serious thinking guy have. Comparing isn't unreasonable, but claiming that they are identical would be. Nobody said that. >For me and many others this is very important and I am not gonna justify why if >you are not able to understand that. I find that very important too, but it doesn't make the product better than other alternatives. Nor does it seem to be an essential addition to programs you already own, unless you're a collector. >Sure you might have another opinion but this is no reason to try to >down-evaluate this commercial program. With your arguments you could argue >against any other commercial programs because of course they also offer "only" >some more database functions and ICS support. So they are all not worth buying. I presume you noticed the subject thread and the original message by Mike Adams. It's about whether RT offers anything that owners of Chessbase products don't already possess. It apparently doesn't. I've even mentioned a free alternative, WinBoard, which combined with any Chessbase product would be just as powerful and free. If you don't own any commercial program then RT2 is a viable option, especially if you're hooked on easy ICS access and interested in analysis. The most flexible GUI is still the one offered by Chessbase, correct me if I'm wrong, and they will also launch new amazing engines (plural) if I'm not mistaken. >Why not vice versa like it is? You can play and use any Winboard-engine in Rebel >Tiger. Because then you could RT2 in almost all available commercial GUI's. That has to be an advantage. >Your ignorance is impressive. No, not really, but your lack of objectivity certainly is. I urge you to explain what an owner of Chessbase products is missing that would justify spending the extra money apart from the amazing new engines (yes, plural it is again). Mogens.
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