Author: stuart taylor
Date: 16:09:44 10/29/03
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On October 29, 2003 at 12:32:16, Tord Romstad wrote: >On October 29, 2003 at 06:35:22, stuart taylor wrote: > >>Therefore I gave it up long ago, since all I achieve is to burden my fathers >>computer with some useless mysterious files of some kind. >>But I just now got temted by what looked like the ease of downloading another >>one, looking like nothing in the world can go wrong, and there again, a load of >>rubbish gets downloaded and can't be deleted either! This was what I thought was >>to be Genesis 2, and trhat it was a chess playing program. >> For that reason, I have hardly any interest in all these amatuer programs >>because all it does is installs alot of dirt onto my computer, and that doesn't >>seem very attractive to me. >> >>Anyway, >> >>Perhaps I can do with some expert guidance as to how to convert it into a >>chessplaying thing. > >Hello, Stuart! > >I think the other people who have answered your post didn't really >understand your problem. You probably expected the programs you downloaded >to ship with a graphical user interface, which most amateur programs >don't. Most of the programs are simply "chess engines". In order to >play against them, you have to download a GUI separately. In Windows, >the easiest one to get started with is probably Arena, which you can >download from http://www.playwitharena.com. Arena ships with some >(rather strong!) chess engines which you can play with right away. It >should also include instructions about how to install additional chess >engines (the "mysterious files" you describe above). > >Good luck! > >Tord Thanks alot! I'll try to see about all that, which is a thing I didn't understand. Other people here probably don't realize how ignorant I am. But the truth is I havn't been very technical over the past few years. Firstly, when I use someone elses computer I have to be very careful not to do anything. And when I was using my own, my computer dealer never corrected things I messed up (or gave me any tips, which I was relying on him for), and my computer would end up useless after not too long. S.Taylor
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