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Subject: Re: SelSafety and Chess Tiger 14 (CB) -btw

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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