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Subject: Re: Third Party Winboard support for Fritz GUI

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 07:21:50 06/10/03

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On June 10, 2003 at 08:31:44, Mike Hood wrote:

>Do you all remember Chessbase's Winboard adapter? It was nice to use it to run
>Winboard engines in the Fritz GUI, but the sloppy implementation made more
>friends than enemies, and Chessbase has now withdrawn support for it. But why
>don't we see this as an opportunity? If Chessbase no longer offers a Winboard
>adapter, why doesn't some non-Chessbase person write a new adapter instead of
>leaving users to fiddle around with Winboard-UCI converters? Someone well
>acquainted with both the Winboard and Chessbase protocols. There are a few
>programmers who fit the description... any volunteers?

How? The CB protocol is not open, therefore we 'only' have Odd Gunnars
fine WB2UCI adapter (UCI is a free protocol...).
AFAIK even the WB programmers, who have a CB native for free download,
dont know the CB protocol as they send their program to CB and CB transforms
them into CB Natives. (or they are obliged not to publish the protocol)

Regards,
Günther



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