Author: Vincent Diepeveen
Date: 19:06:04 01/21/02
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On January 21, 2002 at 17:53:53, Andreas Schwartmann wrote: >On January 21, 2002 at 14:44:49, Volker Pittlik wrote: > >>If I still understand German well this message: >> >>http://f23.parsimony.net/forum50826/messages/34409.htm >> >>gives some evidence to me that Chessbase is going to remove their >>WinBoard support. > >So to set this straight: > >You think what Christian says is "evidence". Just because > >- he is editor of CSS >- CSS is on good terms with Chessbase. >Therefore all Christian says or writes is already sufficient proof of where >things are going? They simply put up loads of rumours to get less support for winboard. When those are effective, consider winboard support gone in next version. Simple business math can do the job here. add to that, that uci is a free protocol, though it only works under windows, which might be seen as quite a big disadvantage (dynamic dialog boxes under linux i still have to see someone to get to work) >All CL said is that presumably starting with F8 Chessbase might stop supporting >the WB-protocol. In my opinion, Christian's lines can only be taken as an >assumption. I strongly doubt if Chessbase themself already know in detail by now >what features F8 will contain and what will be left out next time around. Who >nows what will be the next big thing when Fritz 8 is due for release? Maybe UCI >will be succeeded by something completely new by then. Can you tell the future? >Why do you think Christian can do? > >Andreas
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