Author: Sune Larsson
Date: 00:01:45 06/28/01
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On June 28, 2001 at 02:42:31, Peter McKenzie wrote: >On June 27, 2001 at 20:28:22, Christophe Theron wrote: > >>On June 27, 2001 at 18:30:54, John Smith wrote: >> >>>The Tiger I tested was the Lokasoft gui. I may be wrong, but I feel that the >>>lokasoft/rebel version is stronger than the CB version. I have both the CB and >>>Rebel/lokasoft, and I find the CB version to be weaker. Again, this is my >>>opinion. >> >> >>They have exactly the same DLL (the DLL is the executable files that contains >>the engine)! > >Just curious about how your engine interfaces with the CB GUI, I see a number of >possibilities: > >A) your engine DLL already implements the CB engine interface API (unlikely I >would think) > >B) your engine DLL implements the Lokasoft engine interface API, in which case >there are two possibilities I can think of: > >B1) the CB GUI calls the lokasoft API directly (this also seems unlikely) since >I'd say CB want to keep their GUI code pretty much the same for all of their >products (Fritz, Junior etc). > >B2) the CB GUI uses its own API to call a translation DLL which translates the >CB API call into a call to the Lokasoft API. Of course the translation DLL >would have to then translates the results into CB format and pass them back to >CB. This solution is analagous to the CB Winboard adaptor. > >So which one is it? Or is it something different? >If it is B2, I could imagine quite alot of scope for weakening the overall >playing strength of the GUI/Engine combination. You only have to look at the >history of the CB Winboard adaptor to see some of the problems that are >possible... > >I hope this question isn't too sensitive to answer accurately :-) Thanks Peter, this is a very vital question. And it will be interesting to take part of the reactions and responses to it. Sune > >> >>The only difference is the opening book. >> >> >> >> Christophe
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