Author: Aaron Tay
Date: 11:13:14 01/19/02
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On January 19, 2002 at 08:34:44, Sune Larsson wrote: >On January 19, 2002 at 01:28:06, CLiebert wrote: > >>Nothing changed here. > > Logical. Representatives from Chessbase have previously stated that this > feature (proper support for WinBoard engines), is of interest just for a few > dedicated freaks. Furthermore that there is no profit to gain from such an > improvement, even if - as one Cb representative wrote in a German forum - > "it shouldn't be difficult to make the adapter work much better"... > > Sune Perhaps they want to support UCI instead? With the removal of the winboard adaptor from their pages this looks like a first possible step. Also with Stefan Meyer-Kahlen in their stable, making comments like Winboard is obslete, seems to point to an attempt to slowly and gradually drop support to Winboard engines. The next logically step of course, would be removing the support of winboard engines in Fritz 8 .. For now,They can't do anything about the "freaks" who already know of course, but not having the adaptor on the pages prevents any users from accidently stumbling on the adaptor idea. On the other hand UCI support might not be that bad a idea, as long as they don't accidently weaken UCI engines :) . The range of UCI engines are still limited but perhaps the availability of Arena might change this and make it worth the while of authors of weaker Chess engines to adapt their programs to UCI, since currently, the lack of a free UCI interface, limits the number of users. Why produce a UCI version if no one uses it? (Freaks have everything of course, including UCI interfaces, but many are mostly interested in the top end engines) Just a theory..
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