Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 05:08:55 09/25/02
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On September 24, 2002 at 16:45:45, Peter Berger wrote: >On September 24, 2002 at 13:06:16, Frank Quisinsky wrote: > >>You can used in ChessBase GUI and ChessPartner GUI free available engines. But >>you can not used the engines from ChessBase and ChessPartner in free or other >>available GUIs. So the firms used freeware but give not the chance to used the >>own engines in other GUIs. > >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? I don't know about Frank, but an open API would be a great boon for a software developer. I picked up a copy of Deep Junior 6 some time back, and while I enjoyed playing it in ChessBase's GUI, it was quite frustrating that it wasn't possible for me to write code that used it for analysis. Dave
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