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Subject: Re: About open systems, engines, and another approach...

Author: Thorsten Czub

Date: 12:04:51 11/05/98

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On November 05, 1998 at 02:20:36, Ed Schröder wrote:

>> Ed you must grab hold of what's left or you will have no future market.
>>Engines left, Ferret, the King, M-chess, Chess tiger.  Maybe you can get some
>>others but i don't know if that's a problem since they are already making
>>engines for millenium and chessbase.  Rebel simply having previous engines of
>>rebel doesn't inspire anyone :(.  I had hoped that you could have grabbed hold
>>of hiarcs.
>
>I like the concept of "engines" very much and it's a nice extra promotion
>for the basic program in question. Still the "engine" system has 2 major
>disadvantages:

IMO we need a 3rd empire:

The intelligent software empire:

Rebel, ChessSystemTal, Mchess, ChessTiger, Diep, Hiarcs.

I would like to see these programs in ONE user-interface under WIN95.
This would spare marty and mark to develop OWN win95 user-interfaces.
Ed could bring rob kempers database stuff into cstal win95 user interface.

>a) you always see the same GUI;
>b) the market for engines is a limited one as most people use only one program.
>Of course (b) is not valid here on CCC :-)
>
>I will come up with another approach. At the moment I and another programmer
>are exchanging playing strength ideas which the both of us will use in each
>others engines. We estimate that it will make both engines a lot stronger.

Very good. More of this ed.

>Next we will split jobs. I will fully concentrate on the "human-comp" approach
>(my specialty) and the other programmer will concentrate on the comp-comp
>area (his specialty).

aha !

>I hope we will manage and our expectations are high. We will see.

>- Ed -

GOOD. But why not a 3rd empire ?

The empire of the intelligent programs ?!




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