Author: Michael de la Maza
Date: 07:03:43 10/16/00
The problem with ChessBase 8 is that it doesn't have an open API. It should have a complete event model, etc. If it did, I predict that the market would be flooded with wonderful add-ons within six months. Here are some of the things I would like to see: 1. Database query language This is a personal pet peeve. ChessBase's search functions are impressive only to people who are not familiar with databases. Ten lines of SQL running over a properly structured database would outdo anything that ChessBase does. Wouldn't it be wonderful to have a chess search programming language that would interface with ChessBase? 2. Engine interface The current engine interfaces are a kludge. 3. ICS interface Question: Is there anything that we can do to get ChessBase to create such an API?
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