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Subject: Re: Fritz lives on an island?

Author: Eduard Nemeth

Date: 00:20:35 01/01/04

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On December 31, 2003 at 20:54:13, Dann Corbit wrote:

>Is there some handy way to play this program against other programs?
>
>Can Chess Genius Classic be played under any other GUI?
>
>This is the tower of babel:
>
>ChessMaster interface (some kind of modified Winboard)
>Chess Genius interface
>Chess Partner interface
>Fritz interface
>ChessAssistant interface
>Winboard interface
>UCI interface
>MCS interface
>
>
>It's absurd.  There needs to be some common interface so that every program can
>play against any other, without hours and hours of tweaking stuff.
>
>Now, I don't care about copy protection.  If the program writers want to make me
>insert a thousand CDs then fine.  But I want to be able to play engine against
>engine without having to reverse engineer anything.  FCOL.
>
>IMO-YMMV.

This is the tower of babel:

ChessMaster interface (some kind of modified Winboard)
Chess Genius interface
Chess Partner interface
Fritz interface
ChessAssistant interface
Winboard interface
UCI interface
MCS interface

Regards,

Eduard.





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