Author: Albert Silver
Date: 20:37:37 05/19/01
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On May 19, 2001 at 12:39:29, pete stein wrote:
>On May 19, 2001 at 10:16:24, Albert Silver wrote:
>
>>On May 19, 2001 at 09:59:41, pete stein wrote:
>>
>>>Instead of building 2 different Gui's, it would be better to combine the best of
>>>Fritz GUI (opening book/database/engine tournaments) and the best of Shredder
>>>GUI (triple / octal or multi brain) into 1 freeware GUI
>>
>>Why should they make their GUI freeware?
>>
>> Albert
>>
>>
>>> to which noncommercial
>>>and commercial engines be added, all engines using 1 and the same protocol
>>>(either UCI, either Winboard protocol).
>>>The commercial engines could still come with their personal opening book,
>>>database, engines settings/personalities, logos, etc but not changing the
>>>standard GUI.
>>>
>>>Pete
>
>Fritz light, the UCI protocol, most WinBoard engines and WinBoard are freeware
>already. If ChessBase want their GUI to become widespread, they will offer it as
>freeware to run freeware engine tournaments, what is a very discrete form of
>publicity for their commercial products.
>
>Pete
It's not discrete, it's standard, but why would you want to have only one GUI to
choose from? Nothing wrong with Fritz, it's a fine GUI, but I would think that
any consumer would prefer to have the option to choose. As it is, you can run
Winboard and UCI engines in a lot of GUIs, and it's a blessing. You've got
Winboard, Fritz, Shredder, Rebel Tiger, Chess Assistant, Chessmaster, and no
doubt a few others.
Albert
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