Author: Odd Gunnar Malin
Date: 12:44:52 11/12/03
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On November 12, 2003 at 13:53:05, Fernando Villegas wrote: >I am amazed to see all tme posts like this: >"Dear...programmer such and such: >May I take the engine coming with GUI X to be used in GUI Y after being fitted >to be used with Z and so make a test using Gui H?..." >Curious this running from one gui to another instead of just using what the >engine brigs nativelly. Ot it is this a natural outcome of engine Vs engine >fans, trying to put everything into one battle field? >As a human player that purchase programs to play them personally >this is pure madness, of course. >Fernando There is many use of an engine. For pure playing I agree with you that playing with the package you purchased is best. Many (probably most) chessplayers only buy/play with one program at a time for this purpose. If an author of an engine could manage to create a package where the user only have to click on a setupfile either from a CD or downloaded from internet to install a new (free) engine into his loving gui, I guess more people would do this and get even more fun out of the software. Such package could be created with easy for almost any gui. Other players like to use engines as an analysis tool and want to install it into the software they use for this. Database software are maybe the best tool here since you also want to lookup similar positions from human games too. When you study a game or preparing an opening you sometimes search for ideas. This could be done by letting different engines follow your (manual) analysis. For opening preparation even enginematches from a given position could give you some insight into this opening. My favourite here is to match a strong engine against a less strong engine to see pitfalls in the topical opening. Then you have those who like to match engines against engines as a competition at home. I guess both the competition and the pleasure to follow the games either with guessing the move or just as a spectator is fun. The fourth group could be those who like to play on a server to match other with the same hobbie. At least they need to get the engine they want to use (love) to be able to play on their prefered server. As I understand this hobbie have envolved into meeting face to face too with weekend tournaments, so I guess you can compare it with what other chesslovers do. One purpose here is to create a setting and/or an opening that would take their opponent down. Odd Gunnar
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