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Subject: Re: The "specially sausage" Fighter!

Author: Peter Berger

Date: 14:43:03 09/24/02

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On September 24, 2002 at 17:20:44, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>>There _are_ differences. Let's take Tamerlane and Fritz. I agree with your
>>respect for the programmer of Tamerlane but it doesn't make sense to claim that
>>they represent the same kind of quality IMHO.
>
>Sorry Peter, no different for me.
>MFChess or Fritz, engine is engine!

We have to agree to disagree on this one.

>>But why would anyone want to do that? If you bought a commercial full-featured
>>GUI where you can use all your beloved engines - why would you want to use them
>>is another inferior GUI ? I agree to the exception of the ChessBase GUIs when it
>>is about their miserable WinBoard support. But if you owned say Shredder and
>>wanted to use UCI engines and you are no part of another development team - do
>>you really think you would be much interested to run them in say Arena?
>
>Please speak not from Arena.
>I know Martin Blume since end of the year 2001.
>I wrote the same now 4 years.
>This have not to do with Arena, not very nice what you write Peter.
>
>Inferior GUI?
>What is a inferior GUI, please give me an example?

I think that Arena is inferior to costy commercial GUIs. This is not about being
nice or being evil, it's about the truth.

OK - and I'll bite for once. You don't really say the same for 4 years now at
all. Even last year you still wrote that you thought UCI engines shouldn't be
availlable for free at all but only as a commercial product - you changed your
opinion later ..

Peter



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