Author: Mike Hood
Date: 08:25:26 01/30/04
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On January 30, 2004 at 09:28:28, Bob Durrett wrote: >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. That's true, Bob. On the other hand, there's one other factor in my case, which may or may not be rational. Even if the Fritz GUI were fixed, I like to run engines in the GUI they were designed for. I have several UCI engines on my PC, but I prefer to run them in Arena. I use Fritz for the native engines. I'm afraid that the adaptor is making false translations over which I have no control. Am I being paranoid? Maybe. But whatever the reason, when both versions exist, I'd rather have the Chessbase native version of List 5.12 than the UCI version.
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