Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 18:36:24 08/25/02
Go up one level in this thread
On August 25, 2002 at 12:21:51, Gian-Carlo Pascutto wrote: >On August 25, 2002 at 11:45:57, Ulrich Tuerke wrote: > >>You could even go further and ask, why they are allowed to use the CessBase GUI >>? >>That's because, there are other important features besides the book itself: >>first of all book-learning through the CB-GUI which is particularly essential >>for the SSDF kind of matches, another things is the EGTB access by the GUI. So >>in case a 5 men position appears on the board, the engine won't even be invoked; >>that's handled completely by the CB GUI. >> >>On the other hand, the CB commercial engines have been using these features for >>a long time without anyone complaining as far as I know. Why should gromit be a >>so terribly different case here ? > >You have a point here, but I think the answer is simply that most programmers >feel that there is little creativity involved in making the GUI. Certainly, >it is not a task to be taken lightly, but a good interface does not actually >affect the strength of the engine. The learning *does*, but honestly, a good >learning function is not very hard to write either, especially for someone >who already made a chessengine. The learning method that the CB GUI uses is >documented in the ICCA Journals. The same goes for the endgame tablebases. >No matter what format they are in, the data is always the same. > >The book, on the other hand, is a totally different matter. > >-- >GCP Out of curiosity, where can I find the article? Thanks, Dave
This page took 0 seconds to execute
Last modified: Thu, 15 Apr 21 08:11:13 -0700
Current Computer Chess Club Forums at Talkchess. This site by Sean Mintz.