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Subject: Re: CCT6 2004: Now 25 Participants

Author: enrico carrisco

Date: 19:42:44 12/02/03

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On December 02, 2003 at 22:02:15, Russell Reagan wrote:

>On December 02, 2003 at 20:18:47, enrico carrisco wrote:
>
>>B.  The discussion was concerning Chessbase engines, not Chessbase themselves.
>>Mark Uniacke and myself have no direct connection with Chessbase or their GUI
>>other than that is the marketers of the finished engine -- therefore if "WE"
>>decided to participate in CCT6, changing the GUI to add ICC or other ICS support
>>would not be an option.
>
>You couldn't add Winboard support like everyone else?

"Everyone else?"  -- I know of few commercial programs that have winboard
support (not loading winboard engines in their own GUI, but actually can be
loaded as a winboard engine itself.)  I'm sure there are some I am not thinking
of, but only Rebel comes to mind.  Gandalf really doesn't count because after
version 6 it went UCI AFAIK.

I haven't used the word "can't" -- but only commented that it is easily longer
than an hour to do so -- and outside of the Chessbase GUI, we would also need to
write (re-write) any tournament books.

I'm sure if we decide to compete, I'll just work out some kind of parsed text
dump from Hiarcs engine itself (not the GUI) and have it kibitzed via winboard.
This will still require a third program running to pipe this eval to winboard as
there are limitations as to what a loaded engine in the chessbase GUI can
actually do.  Dumping eval to a text file is one thing...

-elc.



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