Author: Roy Eassa
Date: 09:47:54 09/27/02
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On September 27, 2002 at 12:36:36, Shep wrote: >On September 26, 2002 at 17:41:13, Roy Eassa wrote: > >>Maybe this would be a way to get Tiger 15 to run under Fritz (Chessbase)? >> >>First, binary-compare the Tiger 14 version for Chessbase to the Tiger 14 version >>for Chess Partner. Then apply the same differences to Tiger 15 for Chess >>Partner and voila! >> >>Do you think it would work? > >Only in theory. Binary comparisons don't yield a thing unless you can understand >machine code as well as a CPU can. :) >The CB version has to be compiled with a whole different set of output routines, >so it will have a lot less in common with the CP version than you think. >Besides I don't think you could mark the spots where code is "for output" and >where "for chess pondering". > >The only thing you _could_ do is write a program that listens to the data >exchange between the Chess Partner GUI and the Tiger engine, then try to make >sense of those data to understand how their communication works. Then do the >same for the Chessbase GUI and write an interface program between the two. >It's doable, but I'd rather wait another month and even shell out another $50 - >heck, each working hour in my job is worth twice that, so why would I even >bother spending days and weeks to get this right? :-) For both GUIs, isn't all the chess engine logic sitting in a single .DLL file, independent of all GUI code? If so, perhaps that would simplify the process? (I was only about 10% serious in my previous posting, but there might be a grain of an idea here.) If I knew for sure Tiger will be released as a CB engine, I'd happily wait and buy it. But there is no such assurance AFAIK. Last version, I bought Tiger 14 for ChessPartner and Tiger 14 with Chess Assistant and Tiger 14 for Palm (3 purchases!) and STILL do not have Tiger 14 for the one environment I use all the time -- Fritz. So this time around I'm waiting (and being unemployed doesn't help). The binary compare thing, if at all workable, would IMHO be better than there NEVER being a Tiger 15 for Fritz/CB.
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