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Subject: Re: Suggestion to Dan Wulff and Steen Suurballe: Gandalf 6 opening book

Author: Thomas Mayer

Date: 14:29:42 03/04/03

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Hi Michael,

>I dont want Chessbase standards. I dont want Microsoft standards either.
>Unfortunately many programs I use ONLY run on these platforms.

The question is: who is to blame for that ? The programs that run on different
platforms ???

>There are only two commercial databases available.

Don't forget Chess Academy - and for what are you using databases ? For
analysis, right ?! So well, in case of ChessAssistant and ChessAcademy you can
use all WinBoard and all UCI engines for analysis... afaik you can not even use
UCI engines in the Chessbase database... (might be wrong for the newest
version...) So why do you need the book ?

>It is surely not a bad idea to make your product as compatible with their
>standards as possible.

well, it IS compatible... the only thing is that you can't look to deep in the
book... don't see that as a real problem - you can use e.g. in ChessBase GUI any
book and adjust it to the needs of Gandalf... maybe you can create then
something even better then Dan does... (I doubt that, but anyway the possibility
is there)

Greets, Thomas



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