Author: John Charles
Date: 06:20:00 07/13/03
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On July 13, 2003 at 07:43:58, Jonas Bylund wrote: >On July 13, 2003 at 04:07:32, John Charles wrote: > >>On July 13, 2003 at 01:08:26, Leo Dijksman wrote: >> >>>On July 12, 2003 at 20:59:12, John Charles wrote: >>> >>>>On July 12, 2003 at 20:19:17, David Dahlem wrote: >>>> >>>>>At this site of the upcoming Rebel 12 for Windows: >>>>> >>>>>http://www.lokasoft.nl/uk/rebel12-pre-release.htm >>>>> >>>>>There is this sentence: >>>>> >>>>><quote> >>>>>Although the engine is programmed using the so called Winboard Protocol it does >>>>>not function quite well under other chess interfaces. >>>>><unquote> >>>>> >>>>>What exactly does "does not function quite well" mean? Does it function at all >>>>>under other interfaces? >>>>> >>>>>Dave >>>> >>>> >>>>When you have installed Chesspartner 5.3.. You have the best. IMHO. Why would >>>>you want to run it in any other gui? >>> >>>Because ChessPartner (ERT) have no tournement mode yet!! >>> >>>Thats a (the only?) good reason to run it in a other GUI by my opinion. >>> >>>Leo. >>> >>> >>>> >>>>Chris. >> >>I apologise for jumping in. It was early in the morning. I realise not everyone >>likes auto232, lIke I do! >>When Lex includes the Tournament mode, you will have your wish! How is that for >>a win win situation!! >> >>JC > >Still if you want to test Rebel against CB engines (which i for one would >prefer) you would have to use to auto232 solution. There are many bad things to >be said about windows (as opposed to DOS or linux) but one thing i REALLY like >about it is that it is easy to use and under optimal circumstances it gives the >user more options on the fly. Since Rebel is going "Windows" it would be nice to >see it support all the conveniences of the windows inviornment, thus enabling >it to run as a fully functional WB/UCI engine under all the CB (or atleast the >latest CB) GUI's. > >Don't get me wrong i have always followed Rebel with great interest and will buy >the windows version as soon as it hits the stores, no matter how good/bad the >windows implementation turns out. > >The only reason that i would like to see Rebel (and as many other engines as >possible) support WB/UCI is that it gives the user choices that CB,CP etc does >not, and it is up to me where i want to have "my" engine run. > >Jonas Point taken. Rebel for windows is fully auto232 compliant, and that for me is great. I like to pit these engines aginst each other. I like you, would feel great if Rebel 12 runs in a variety of guis. Then you can choose your favourite! Oh well back to the computers. JC
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