Author: Vine Smith
Date: 14:54:13 09/18/01
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On September 18, 2001 at 05:58:34, Chris Taylor wrote: >On September 17, 2001 at 18:21:04, Eduard Nemeth wrote: > >>In a german Computer Chess Forum I read "now", that Century 4 will be only a >>MS-DOS program! >> >>Who would have today a Dos-program (I not, I'm sorry) ? >> >>Eduard > >I have no problem at all in running Century 4, when it comes out. Century 3.2 >runs in windows with 200Mb hash and runs well. I click on a little icom and it >starts up. I can even get the thing autoplaying. I hope C4 runs just as easily. > >I have just been using the Century gui to strip annotations and time remarks >from pgn files. Then I am burning the smaller file size onto cd. The Rebel >file format is a great way of saving games in databases. Swap between pgn and >dat. So all Rebels databases can be turned to pgn and read by chess base. epd >sets can be made easily. Oh yes nearly forgot to mention, it has this strong >chess engine that can be tweeked. > >Chris Taylor I also prefer DOS, and command lines to GUIs. I used to analyze games with Fritz, but then found that invoking Crafty from the DOS window and using its "annotate" command was far easier (and more informative, as well). The evolution of program interfaces from symbolic representation to graphic depiction is a step backwards, in my opinion. Regards, Vine Smith
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