Author: Chessfun
Date: 20:26:55 12/02/03
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On December 02, 2003 at 22:56:00, Russell Reagan wrote: >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... I think that's something we all dreamed of for a long time. However Chessbase decided to create their own server instead. And looking at how many people actually play there it would seem they are already the 2nd biggest server. Sarah.
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