Author: Marc van Hal
Date: 14:26:29 11/12/01
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On November 11, 2001 at 23:29:35, Aloisio Ponti Lopes wrote: >My questions: > >1) What's your impression of the Unix market for Chess? >(UnixWare/SCO/AIX/IRIX/Solaris/NetBSD/OpenBSD/FreeBSD/HP-UX/Digital-Unix) >Would you consider a port of your program for Unix? > >2) What's your impression of the Linux market for Chess? >Would you consider a port of your program for Linux? > >3) What do you think about the AMD x Intel struggle? > >4) Would you consider optimizing the code to run your program using an Alpha >processor? > >5) Do you agree with Microsoft's idea of "Software Activation" ? Would it be >aplicable to the Unix / Linux World ? > >6) What's your impression about 3D graphics and Chess? What about the multimedia >resources? Aren't both 3d and multimedia neglected nowadays? > >A. Ponti The nice part is that under many answers and questions made here Can also been seen in an other light To change the story from 3d programs to unix is a combo I don't understand. About Microsoft The 3d Grapic industry already uses dongel drivers for years know It is also better then the software licensment of Microsoft because you do not have to be carefull wich hardware you ad to your computer. You can also use a 3d program to create you chesspieces and boards and make a game of it in a program like Maya. The story about batlechess I always liked Interplay still picks the fruits from this program I also have combatchess This program is much stronger but not as much animations And terminator chess (A folow up is something I try to create myself In an otherway but with the same kind of idea} It played movies after each capture instead of animations on the board) Like warlord ( the first strategy game) also showed close ups from the battle when you where fighting against the enemy an idea wich later on never was used again ( a pity because this could be a very nice idea with todays technics) Chessmaster actualy developed itself after each hardware posibilety It already did use 3d pieces in Chessmaster 2100! It did use voice ( from Karpov) and the piece graphics where improved because the videocards where improved in Chessmaster 3000 in these days the competition came from Kasparov's Gambit wich even used small videos from Kasparov Then chessbase came with Fritz4 also with 3d pieces! Wich never realy changed after this version Lately a name was used Jan Louwman he told me that in 1998 the programers destroyed the chess software industry (Ofcourse it almost became imposible for him to buy chess computers in the forehand because he didn't know if he could sell them which was not such a big problem some years before) The programs became to strong and could not be improved anymore Which basicaly is the treuth Chessprograms never became stronger after 1998 only small adjustments and new books To my opinion Junior is at the moment the only program wich indeed has changed a litle (by new piece table bases though I never did hear from Frans he did use the Fritz piece table bases but I know he does one update from Fritz5 made this very clear) And the only thing which realy could be improved never did improve "Positional knowledge" In 1997 I like the improvemets of the chessprograms Know I am rather bored by games wich are totaly not bases on the positional bases but rather on chance. Though I must admit my day is ok if a program indeed does find the right moves from the start Wich is seldom but it happens From the time I bought Powerchess I already gave the positions to the chessprograms to see if they could find the solutions. In most of the cases they did not A big laughter folowed after the explanations of the queen. And I already told him back then that giving chessprograms more media Should be the way to keep them on the market But above all the customers you get are from a much bigger ranche kids , people who know chess but don't make a pasion from it,The General chess players And even chess geeks like myself. And the nice part of this kind of program is that it doesn't have to be extremely strong to be sold If it even becomes strong even the people who do not like the 3d programs like it Ofcourse you also still can at the 2d boards at it The problem of this media is only that you have to need a crew to work on this (Or someone with many talents) kind of program Because one has to create ideas for the program one needs to know how to create a gui. One needs to know how to create 3d pieces and boards and animations. One needs to know how to use the media One needs to know how to create a chessprogram. One needs to know something from openings and creating books. One needs to know what is important for chess positions.
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