Author: Albert Silver
Date: 04:34:56 12/16/01
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On December 15, 2001 at 17:01:56, Mike S. wrote:
>On December 15, 2001 at 14:10:05, David Rasmussen wrote:
>
>>UCI seems like a good idea. (...) I
>>am not going to buy Shredder just to get the GUI.
>
>Convekta writes that their free Chess Assistant Light supports UCI (I did not
>yet try it). It's not only a database, but has a playing environment too.
I was intrigued by this comment since the direct support of UCI and MCS (as well
as the Tiger engines) was disabled for CA Light, and you are correct. For some
reason the detailed descriptions of the full Chess Assistant 6 appear as the
description of CA Light. All the same, there is a small workaround, much as
exists for Fritz 6: using the UCI -> Winboard adapter. I have not tested this,
but know it works for CA6 so presume it will work fine with CA Light as the
latter supports Winboard. Other than this limitation of engine types, the
playing environment is fully functional, including the tournament and match
functions.
>
>http://www.convekta.com/downloads/calite/index.htm
>
>I would be interestd btw., if somebody has tried this with UCI engines what his
>impression was, if everything worked fine etc.
>
>
>Regards,
>M.Scheidl
>
>
>P.S.: I think UCI has become popular also because of the Shredder 5 GUI. I like
>it much. Maybe due to the release of Shredder 6, some people will sell their
>Shredder 5? In this case I would strongly recommend it, if the price is ok. The
>complete package includes also Deep Shredder (5), a patch, SOS 12/2000 London,
>various Nimzos including another GUI, and some TBS discs.
I agree the Shredder 5 GUI was quite good, and am curious about the differences
between it and the new Shredder 6 GUI. Also, if Shredder 6 is a UCI engine, then
CA6 should support it. Has anyone tried it?
Albert
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