Author: Christophe Theron
Date: 09:58:54 10/13/00
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On October 13, 2000 at 12:36:44, Mogens Larsen wrote:
>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.
So you must be very irritated by the number of Crafty clones as well, isn't it?
>>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.
You compared Rebel-Tiger II and Winboard and suggested that RT2 does not offer
much more than Winboard.
At first I thought your post was meant as a joke.
After thinking about it for a while, I have to admit that this is the first time
such a troll is tried on this forum.
Well done, Mogens! :)
>>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.
So what are you doing on this forum?
If you are not interested to what new hot programs have to offer, and if you
really think that Winboard+GnuChess or Winboard+Crafty is a good choice for you,
I guess that the content of this forum must be of very little interest to you?
What OS are you using? Windows 3.1? By your standards I guess that Windows 95,
98 or ME offer very little over Windows 3.1?
>>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.
How do you know the ChessBase GUI is the most flexible?
Have you tried the new Rebel-Tiger II GUI?
What are your points of comparison?
>>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.
I think many people think that they would really LOVE to be able to use the
Fritz engine inside the Rebel-Tiger GUI.
As soon as ChessBase offers the Fritz engine as a Winboard engine, we will
provide the Chess Tiger engine as a Winboard engine.
>>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).
This question has been answered by several people (at least 3 people: Harald,
Uri and Peter).
I urge you to explain what a user of the Rebel-Tiger II product is missing that
would justify spending the extra money to get the CB product?
Christophe
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