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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