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Subject: Re: Downloads at ChessBase: What's up?

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 15:15:14 01/12/02

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On January 12, 2002 at 08:42:08, Sune Larsson wrote:

> Or... the Chessbase WinBoard adapter - not good for the Winboard community...
>
> Sune
>

I disagree. Let's talk Chessmaster8000 - I was very much surprised how eager
_several_ people were to be able to use the "The King" engine in their Fritz
although it definitely is _very_ complicated to plug in even with the great
explanations by Odd Gunnar Malin.

In German computerchess lover circles it was a huge success and has boosted
Chessmaster sales ( don't get me wrong : not in the whole , only in this
environment). Even people who wouldn't bother with WinBoard.ini's gave it a shot
and I was very much surprised how many succeeded.

That's with the ChessBase WinBoard adapter for sure!

I don't know what to make out of this but one interesting fact is that my
default Fritz 7 engine is "The King 3.12d", so it seems I am infected, too :-)).

People who complain about the adapter are right when it is about engine-engine
matches - but for analysis purposes the adapter does a quite decent job IMHO and
for analysis the ChessBase interface is the best one I know.

Regards,
pete



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