Author: Uri Blass
Date: 05:26:25 09/25/02
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On September 25, 2002 at 08:08:55, Dave Gomboc wrote: >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 Is not possible or hard? I do not know how to do it but my first thought is that if I can post analysis only by clicking the mouse and moving it to the right places and clicking ctrl+v there is no reason to prevent a software to do the same. Is there something that prevent programs to do it? Uri
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