Author: Uri Blass
Date: 06:58:44 01/04/03
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On January 03, 2003 at 15:31:34, Christophe Theron wrote: >On January 03, 2003 at 14:48:21, Ingo Bauer wrote: > >>Hello >> >>>I want to port Chess Tiger to Linux, and release it as a free engine (without >>>sources). >> >>Do you want to make a single engine? If so, what kind of GUI do you want to use? >>xBoard? In that case a Winboardversion is not far... :-) >> >>Thx Ingo > > > >It will probably be a XBoard version at first. > >Forget about Winboard compatibility. For commercial reasons. I am not sure if these commercial reasons are good reasons. If there are enough customers that will not buy tiger if it does not become winboard engine then you will have to make it support winboard for commercial reasons. Movei supports winboard and I do not plan to stop it. It seems absurd to me if programs need to remove winboard support in order to become commercial. It means that the top commercial programs cannot play in some tournaments like Leo's tournament(see http://wbec-ridderkerk.nl/) and a free program(Ruffian) wins that competition. Unfortunately today people have no choice if they want to buy a top program. What is the reason not to support winboard? Is it copy protection? I believe that this should not be a reason because a winboard program may check that some other files are installed in the computer before it agree to run so the only people who can run it as a winboard engine are people who also can run it as a non winboard engine. Uri
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