Author: Dave Gomboc
Date: 02:55:36 09/26/02
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On September 25, 2002 at 08:26:25, Uri Blass wrote: >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 Okay, it may merely be incredibly difficult. I suppose I could shell out for a licence of Visual Test or some similar program and write something to track the output as the screen is updated. But that's just a bit ridiculous, don't you think? Dave
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