Author: Russell Reagan
Date: 19:56:00 12/02/03
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On December 02, 2003 at 22:42:44, enrico carrisco wrote: >"Everyone else?" -- I know of few commercial programs that have winboard >support... I'm not talking about only commercial programs. Hundreds of other amateur programmers have no problem supporting standards. I don't know why commercial authors choose not to do the same. Oh wait, yes I do, but I'll bite my tongue on that one :-) >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. That is a good reason on your part, but more brain damage from Chessbase. *bites tongue* >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... Wouldn't it be nice if Chessbase GUIs just supported Winboard and/or playing on ICC? Look at all the trouble it would save you, and the freedom it would grant you and every single user. Here is where I bite my tongue again...
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