Author: Uri Blass
Date: 12:20:13 06/14/03
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On June 14, 2003 at 14:02:44, Drexel,Michael wrote: >On June 14, 2003 at 12:51:13, zeidoun wrote: > >>So that , i don't understand why this is a sad news. >>They prouved with Junior 8 that they are really serious. Everyone can make wrong >>decisions, but the good guy is the one that recognizes this and try to correct >>it. > >We are not talking about Junior 8 here. This was obviously a major Bug and the >fix was absolutely necessary. Someone reported a loss on time in no more than 23 >moves. > >This is sad news for several reasons. >First of all Chessbase might decide to release only a CB-native version and not >the expected UCI and Winboard compatible version. I think that it is the decision of the programmer and not of chessbase. >This would mean that you are not able to use Gandalf in Chess Assistant 7.1, >SCID or Shredder classic. >Even if they will release such a version you still have to pay also for the >Fritz GUI. I do not see it in this way I pay only for the engine. The question if I get new gui or do not get gui is not a factor that influence my decision to buy a new engine. New GUI can be a disadvantage because when I am used to one GUI I can find it hard to get used to another gui and UCI engines and winboard engines can be used also under chessbase GUI. I have tiger14 with chesspartner GUI but I almost do not use it in that GUI. The problem is that it is more convenient to use all chess engines in the same GUI and I see no reason to change GUI if all the chess engines can work on the same GUI. Uri
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