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Subject: Re: Can Chessmaster 9000 be run as a UCI Engine?

Author: Manfred Meiler

Date: 10:54:52 09/11/03

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On September 11, 2003 at 08:58:10, Bob Durrett wrote:

>On September 11, 2003 at 01:39:10, Kurt Utzinger wrote:

(...)
>>
>>     Your main question was if CM9k would run under Chess Base 8.
>>     And to this I replied it would not be possible. CM9k however
>>     runs under Fritz8-GUI with the WB2Uci.exe adapter. Please
>>     have a look at http://www.utzingerkurt.com/how_to.htm "How
>>     to use Chessmaster in Fritz-GUI".
>>     Kurt

>
>Thanks, Kurt, for the info on how to use Chessmaster in Fritz-GUI.
>
>I guess I get an instinctive knee-jerk reaction whenever someone says anything
>is impossible.  There have been altogether too many examples where such
>statements were disproven.  For example, "Man cannot fly."
>
>All it would really take, perhaps, is for the Chessbase 8 programmers to modify
>their software.  I hope THAT would not be impossible!
>
>Bob D.


ChessBase 8 doesn't support UCI protocol - so the Wb2Uci adapter is useless in
this case.
But it's possible to use the WinBoard engine "The King 3.23" of CM9000 with the
older WinBoard adapter of ChessBase as Winboard engine in ChessBase 8.

Manfred



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