Author: ERIQ
Date: 08:00:16 07/16/01
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On July 16, 2001 at 06:35:07, CLiebert wrote: >On July 16, 2001 at 02:26:53, ERIQ wrote: > >>maybe the problem w/ chessbase interface and wb engines is that, bigbrother does >>not care about them performing at their best. >> >>Why should they ?! wb engines are free, they don't make money from them but they >>compete strongly w/ fritz,nimzo, etc. their *bread and butter* products. >> >>So if wb-engines somehow get dumbed down alittle great. I guess that justifys >>the price of "pro" engines. >> >> sign, >> Eriq > > >First: Why do you think CB put efforts in developing the adapter? I don't and that's the problem >Second: there are a lots of engines showing no difference in playing strenght. >If programmers a willing and able to optmize their engines for fritz they could >do this. Borgstädt did it for Goliath, Kai Skibbe for gromit, other examples are >Anmon, Faile or TCB. The Natives and wb-adapter-versions of these engines are >quite at the same level in pratice, >did you try one of them? yes, YACE no pondering >But if you like to hold on you big brother theories, feel free ... does anyone else find it strange that if other interfaces can be made to work well w/ all wb-engines IE. (chess acadamy), but not CB "the biggest company". Also when companies gain much of the market share they then tend to not care as much about the little people that got them their. Just my observation. > >Christian
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