Author: Thomas Mayer
Date: 09:35:32 01/12/02
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Hi Matthew, >There they all are, including the very latest Crafty! However, no sign of the >Winboard page - not good for the Winboard community :( Well, the WinBoard community mustn't care about it... there are enough good GUIs with fantastic WinBoard support. In fact the WinBoard community does definitely not need ChessBase at all... Especially such a crap of an adapter is not needed... The protocol specification stays open to everyone and can be implemented also from the commercials - but I will now and in future always critizise when something is not working as it should and on the other hand I will always offer my help when they want to create a good adapter... Maybe this is now ChessBase way to fix bugs - just turn the option off... :) Interesting enough is that it seems that they did react on the critics in the web... not in the way as expected but they react... :) -> Now it's up to the customers to set a rewrite of the adapter on the to do list of ChessBase. Just write them some mails when they will release a new adapter which works correctly. It's also possible that they are little bit afraid of the company's ? Why buying all the chessbase engines when you can get e.g. the chessmaster running fine under their GUI and much cheaper (look at current prizes of ChessMaster 8000 !)... so they maybe want to get rid of the adapter - just because there is the possibility to use other professional engines under their GUI... But enough speculated - it's also possible that they refresh their homepage and have just forgot the winboard-pages so far, who knows... I don't feel bitter at all - as I have said, there are enough options to use winboard engines wherever I want - in a way that they work how they should. Greets, Thomas
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