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Subject: Re: Thinking about buying chesstiger

Author: Roy Eassa

Date: 12:00:38 12/21/01

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On December 21, 2001 at 11:06:45, Brian Kostick wrote:

>On December 20, 2001 at 23:21:29, pavel wrote:
>
>>Well, I need some opinions.
>>I want to buy chesstiger (very eager), but which one to buy?
>>
>>I could buy the one that comes with fritz interface, that way I can play it
>>against fritz7 and other chessbase engines that I have, but I cant play with any
>>winboard engines (esp yace) that are not native (ok maybe i can use adapter but
>>you guys know already, that its not the best way).
>>
>>Or buy the one where it comes with its own interface, then I can play it online
>>along with my favs. winboard engines. But not with my chessbase engines.
>>
>>I am confused. Dont you think, i deserve a chessbase native engine of CT if I
>>buy CT with its own interface? If I want to run chesstiger under fritz
>>interface, then I have to pay extra money for the engine (which I will already
>>have when I buy it with its own interface), and for interface which I already
>>have.
>>
>>whats the point?
>>or has this desolved? (then excuse my ignorance).
>>
>>thanks
>>pavs.
>
>pavel,
>
>  I am not sure but I 'think' with the ChessBase version you could take the
>CT/GT .dll's and use them with ChessAssistant. The opposite would not be true ...


But if he doesn't own Chess Assistant already, he'd have to buy it as a host to
the CB version, thereby getting (and paying for) the CA-native Chess Tiger
anyway!



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