Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 23:13:25 01/13/02
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On January 12, 2002 at 18:15:14, Peter Berger wrote: >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. > You are perfectly right here! It's easy to miss the main focus for this GUI. To let people play a game against the computer. Is it so bad then that some engine lose some strenght? If the average ELO of the users are about 1400 ELO it would only make the engines more useful if their strenght are redused a little towards this. Odd Gunnar
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