Author: Hannu Wegner
Date: 11:56:07 11/08/98
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Hi Peter,
It sounds, that you have some experience with Genius 6 :-). Do you know if
pc-board as Chess 232, Tasc-Smartboard, Mephisto-board or the DGT-board are
supported? What is about a auto 232-feature. Thank you for you answer in
advance!
Best greetings,
Hannu Wegner
On November 07, 1998 at 23:19:33, Peter Schreiner wrote:
>Subject: Fact or Fiction about Chess Genius 6????
>From: Steven Schwartz
>E-mail: icd@icdchess.com
>Message Number: 31856
>Date: November 06, 1998 at 16:50:34
>
>> I just came across the following post in rgcc...
>> I believe that this person is a CCC member. I
>> am curious as to what this means...
>> - Steve (ICD/Your Move)
>
>
>>>Posted by "DeeDeeRamone"...
>>>"I know something about this, but as far as I understand,
>>>it's not gonna be real CG 6, just they're trying to sell
>>>a bunch of everything that's not selling anymore, and it's
>>>gonna contain only CG5 with some add-ons. I mean no real
>>>programming improvement from Richard :("
>
>This is naturally not true ! A few weeks ago, I received the Genius6-Beta from
>the distributor Millenium for some tests. In my view it `s a professionell
>system, which offers a lot of practical features and some very strong engines.
>Specially the new engine from Richard Lang is now in 32Bit and I can`t
>understand, that this guy try to told us, that there is no real programming
>improvement ...very strange. Did you really believe, that Richard Lang didn`t
>make any progress in the last two years or that he deliver only an old
>16Bit-version with his new 32bit-version ...?
>
>Some impressions and keyfunctions from my side:
>
>1.) a nice interface using the standards under Windows; works under
>WIN95/98/NT,
>
>2.) a positional chess tree with a lot of detailed information; this chesstree
>is used as a opening book --> it`s very easy to edit all the preferences in the
>book;; you can complete the new book with cbf- or pgnfiles; you can import the
>older book-format of genius --> *.cgs or *.bok
>
>3.)CG6 supports all important data-formats : pgn, cbf,epd, fen..etc. Good
>database functions in combination with the cbf-format, easy to transform these
>formats for an exchange with other programs
>
>4.) you can analyse with more than one engine at the same time. I analysed a
>game with different engines at the same moment --> Zarkov 5 + Genius 6. Each
>engine displayed all informations in a separate window with a lot of interesting
>informations ( nodes(/second, best move, mainline,etc. ). Comparing the
>different results is very easy.
>
>5.) You can set all complex parameters of the different engines very simple with
>a few mouse clicks
>
>6.) CG6 can analyse complete game - or testsets. Every engine writes it`s search
>results inclusive the engine-name into the notation
>
>7.) like in winboard you can play complete matches between the different engines
>
>and so on.
>
>The most interesting aspect is in my view, that the specifications of this
>system are open for every interested programmer. They can produce and distribute
>such an engine without any contracts, licences or whatever. The question for me
>is : is this system the successor of the winboard ? It`s true, that the winboard
>is free. But it is also true, that the CG6-interface has better features, better
>graphics, better database functions, a positionell chess tree etc......
>
>I think, that the new system is an interesting enrichment for our hobby.
>
>Best wishes
>
>-Peter
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