Author: Omid David Tabibi
Date: 16:18:09 12/12/03
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On December 12, 2003 at 19:06:21, Sune Fischer wrote: >On December 12, 2003 at 18:41:28, Amir Ban wrote: >>>The fact that you should "roll your own book program". I suspect it won't be >>>long before using a foreign interface is illegal in all CC competitions. For >>>one thing, Junior has had an ICC interface for years. I don't know about the >>>others... >> >>I'll plead not guilty to this. I used to play on ICC manually, and I played one >>or two CCT's that way. The last CCT Junior played we had something automatic >>that Shay organized, but it was based on our class-of-1995 interface and book. >> >>Boris Alterman has been doing the Junior book since 1999, and it exists only in >>Chessbase format. >> >>I would like to play in CCT, and I don't even mind using that nonsense book we >>compiled 8 years ago, and resurrecting the alphanumeric graphic I tossed in the >>drawer years ago, but I think for the coming CCT even these concessions won't >>do, and I really have to draw a line somewhere how much I go backwards. > >You would be going forward by making your program connect 'natively' to ICC, >IMO. >I'd be surprised if you got any customer complaints over better compability :) > >>CCT rules seem to be geared for ICC-native programs and the features they >>already have anyway, with anything else proclaimed illegal or primitive. > >I think any serious engine sooner or later will have to add some form of >automation, if nothing else then to test it against other engines. >The code to do this is all open source, so there shouldn't be a real problem. > >The fact that chessbase engines are so dependent on a GUI which can only connect >to a single server is a problem, but I gather this must be Chessbase policy so >it is something you need to discuss with Chessbase. > >Given their stand on this they might not even be too keen on you guys playing >'officially' on a competing server, so perhaps it's just not in the cards. > It seems that the main problem is that the specification of ctg book format is not public, so you are left to read it only via the Fritz interface. If the ctg specification is made public, it would be possible to write a ctg reader utility which would enable the use of the book together with other interfaces. >-S. > >>Amir
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