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Subject: Re: Is it possible to run Wchess (From Majestic Chess) in the Chessbase Gui?

Author: Mike Byrne

Date: 15:25:16 06/18/04

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On June 18, 2004 at 18:12:37, John Merlino wrote:

>On June 18, 2004 at 16:22:52, Andre van Ark wrote:
>
>>Hi Folks,
>>
>>I was wondering:Is it possible to run Wchess (From Majestic Chess) in the
>>Chessbase Gui?
>>
>>Kind regards,
>>André van Ark
>
>The WChess exe in Majestic Chess is a winboard engine, but it is copy protected.
>So, while it can be "run" in the Chessbase GUI just like any other winboard
>engine, it will not run satisfactorily.
>
>jm

Just for clarification, the current Chessbase GUI does not implement the
winboard protocol.  So you must run it through the wb2uci adapter which is
unsatisfactory for most winboard engines.  The adapter sends a "new" command
with every move, "new" in winboard usually means "new game" - thus the engine is
severely handicapped if it treats the "new" command to mean "new game".
Compound that with the copy proection scheme, your expeience will be most
unsatisfactory in the Chessbase GUI or with any Winbaord GUI as well.  I got it
to run, but I could never get it off the instantaneous search and move.  Thus,
it played very weak.



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