Author: Bob Durrett
Date: 06:28:28 01/30/04
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On January 30, 2004 at 07:19:30, Mike Hood wrote: >On January 30, 2004 at 07:06:10, Kurt Utzinger wrote: > >>On January 30, 2004 at 06:19:49, Mike Hood wrote: >> >>>Following the recent free release of the UCI version of List 5.12 I wrote to >>>Chessbase to ask whether the Chessbase native version would be offered free. I >>>received the reply "Diese Engine wird nicht von uns entwickelt. Da müssten Sie >>>ggf. den Autoren anschreiben." (engl. "This engine is not developed by us. You >>>should write to the author"). >>> >>>Does anyone have Fritz's email address so I can contact him, please? >> >> Why List512 as native engine. UCI is in my opinion >> quite ok. I do no see your point: please clarify. >> Kurt > >My point is quite simple: I don't trust the Chessbase UCI interface. I've had >various cases of engines that work perfectly in Arena, but either don't load in >the Fritz GUI or only load after a few seconds have elapsed from the clock. If >the native version of List didn't exist, I wouldn't ask for one to be provided. >But it does exist, and it is currently rated 7th in the CSS list. In his >comments at http://www.computerschach.de/rangliste/aktuelles.htm Klaus Wlotzka >seems to think that Chessbase is holding the engine back because of an upcoming >commercial version. But now I have been told by Chessbase that no commercial >version is planned, and it's up to the author what he does with the engine. It seems to me that the first line of attack would have the objective of fixing the Fritz GUI. Bob D.
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