Author: Mike S.
Date: 09:12:26 03/19/04
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On March 19, 2004 at 01:57:50, Kurt Utzinger wrote: >(...) > In principle: good idea but I have three objections. First of all we > must take into account that most people are using The King for > engine/engine matches outside the CM9-GUI to fight vs ChessBase > native and/or UCI-engines. And I am almost sure that two third of > the people doing this have implemented The King in the wrong way > in the Fritz-GUI, thus of course giving faulty results. Maybe two different engine exe files could be provided, one for the casual customers and another one with engine competition defaults. As for the use in other GUIs, I think that extremely uncomfortable OPK stuff should be completely discarded, and replaced by a normal user-friendly CD request of the engine exe itself (like other engines have it). When adding the WB support with CM8000, it was like a signal that CM wants to serve as a program for computerchess enthusiasts too. As the next important steps in that direction, engine competition settings should be added - or a 2nd engine version for that purpose, when the defaults have to be more "convervative" (which I doubt), and an easy use of the King engine in other GUIs should be made possible. This is no copy protection problem, because a CD request can be put into the engine exe. It could also check for a CM GUI installation in addition to this. This will also help to avoid gettings results from within other GUIs, which may be bad just because of the difficult ways to correctly achieve this currently, as you have mentioned. When these two improvements are not done for Chessmaster X, I simply won't consider it as a computerchess specific program and most probably won't buy it. Actually Kurt, we must ask ourselves anyway if the CM manufacturers want us as customers, because as you remember they didn't even produce a german language box&docs conversion anymore, and AFAIK there was no normal distribution in the german speaking countries, for CM9000. I cannot understand why not (there were such versions for much smaller countries than Germany). Maybe it's too much trouble, because we tend to be so "demanding?" :-)) mfg. Michael
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