Author: Frank Schneider
Date: 09:46:35 11/27/98
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On November 27, 1998 at 10:14:12, Arjen Oudheusden wrote: >Excusez le mot, but I THE CUSTOMER am getting sick and tired of all these chess >programs and chess boards that can not communicate with each other. > >Now, for those of you who don't know yet, US CUSTOMERS, are quite crazy people, >because once we are into chess computing we tend to buy LOADS of your suff. Why? > Don't ask, just enjoy it! BUT we also like to have all our stuff working nicely >together, so that we do not have to translate our ChessBase files to Rebel >format, and losing all our analyses in the process. And wouldn't it be nice if >we could use our multiple chess engines in one program or hook up our beautifull >WHATEVER BRAND chess board to WHATEVER BRAND program. > >How long will it take for you to see that instead of competing each other to >death, you also have a COMMON interest, namely to grow the computers chess >market. > >How to do that? STANDARDIZATION. I tried to raise some interest in that idea some time ago, but only few programmers where interested. See Gromits homepage http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank and there http://home.t-online.de/home/hobblefrank/cidleng.htm >This is what made video, CD, Microsoft, Intel, >and you name it BIG. > >It's not that hard to please us. Just give it a shot! It is not easy, too. But it seems that more and more commercial GUIs offer open interfaces or become winboard-compatible. That would integrate many free engines. > >Arjen Oudheusden. Frank Schneider
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