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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