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Subject: Re: UCI - has somebody tried CA Light?

Author: Frank Quisinsky

Date: 10:06:39 12/16/01

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On December 16, 2001 at 12:54:27, Albert Silver wrote:

>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

Hi Albert,

yes the adapter by Roland Pfister (programmer of Patzer) is great.
Works with all commercial GUIs which I have tryed.

A very nice tool, must say this ... available on my download area :-)
My compliment for your work Albert.

Best
Frank

>
>>
>>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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