Author: Drexel,Michael
Date: 15:07:32 03/04/03
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On March 04, 2003 at 17:29:42, Thomas Mayer wrote: >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 ??? Initially it was a suggestion. I thought they could sell more programs. I didnt blame anyone. > >>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 ? Yes, Bookup is commercial too. Maybe they are not so bad but they are surely not popular. You dont use databases only for analysis. In Shredder 7 and Fritz 7,8 GUIs you can use UCI engines. They have limited database functions. > >>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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