Author: Albert Silver
Date: 09:54:27 12/16/01
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On December 16, 2001 at 09:31:35, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>On December 16, 2001 at 07:20:45, Mike S. wrote:
>
>>On December 16, 2001 at 04:07:20, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>
>>>On December 15, 2001 at 17:01:56, Mike S. wrote:
>>>>(...)
>>>>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.
>>
>>>Hey Michael,
>>>
>>>you have not tryed Chess-Assistant 6.1.
>>>Hey, hey you are a computer chess friend and have not tryed CA 6.1 ?!?
>>>For me the GUI with the best analyse possibiltys and for sure with the best
>>>engine support (UCI, WinBoard, Tiger's russion Dragon).
>>>So:
>>>Gandalf, Tiger's, Shredder's and all Winboard engines works wonderful.
>>>Try it, at the moment my favorite GUI with WinBoard.
>>
>>Yes, trying Chess Assistant was on my higher priorities list.
>>
>>I wanted to try it now using their free CA Light, especially because of the UCI
>>support in the playing environment. But unfortunately, so far I got two
>>feedbacks here that the Light version does not support UCI although they write
>>it does. That's why I didn't download it yet.
>>
>>(For me personally it isn't urgent, because I have Shredder 5 anyway for UCI,
>>and CB 7.0 for chess database operations.)
>>
>>Regards,
>>Michael
>>
>>
>>P.S.:
>>I remember having tried an earlier version of CA some time ago, and didn't like
>>it. But maybe that wasn't Chess Assistant but Chess Academy (I sometimes confuse
>>them, because "CA" fits to both :o).
>
>Hi Michael,
>
>I have got from Millennium and Chess-Assistant the software.
>UCI engines works fine and on the Chess-Assistant webpage you can find updates.
>I having tried the light version.
>
>Yes, all the time I work also with Chess-Base 7.0 (x years the program where I
>made the most work). Now I work with Chess-Assistant, not easy to learn this
>program. An other grafik, options, menue system compare to Chess-Base 7.0. Clear
>is, that Chess-Assistant have more options a better database format, better
>analyse possiblitys and more engine support.
>
>No UCI support for the light version?
>Unfortunately this is not good, but it is only a light version.
Try the UCI -> Winboard adapter. The choice of not allowing direct UCI support
was a deliberate one, but the workaround (the adapter) should work.
Albert
>
>The full version works fine for me.
>I am happy with this software and this is for me alone enough on commercial
>chess software. All what I need can I found in Chess-Assistant 6.1.
>
>Best
>Frank
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