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Subject: Re: chessbase is selling free engines

Author: Günther Simon

Date: 05:07:46 07/25/04

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On July 25, 2004 at 07:58:59, Uri Blass wrote:

>On July 25, 2004 at 07:54:33, Günther Simon wrote:
>
>>On July 25, 2004 at 06:26:14, Uri Blass wrote:
>>
>>>I was surprised to see that all the cheap engines that chessbase is selling are
>>>free engines.
>>>
>>>I was also surprised that they sell old version of Sos from march 2000 but maybe
>>>they believe that customers that buy engines instead of downloading them
>>>deserve to get a worse version
>>>
>>>See http://www.chessbase.com/shop/index.asp?cat=Engines+direct&user=&coin=
>>
>>You forgot to mention that those are _CB Natives_ and there are neither newer
>>nor free CB native versions, from all of them...
>>
>>Regards,
>>Günther
>
>What is the advantage of CB native when the free version also can run under
>chessbase without problems.

Well IMHO there is nothing besides a CB Native which runs _without_
problem under a CB GUI (and this was proven with lots of posts
in different fora until today! - just dig a bit around...)

>Is there an advantage only for people who did not buy one of the programs with
>the chessbase GUI that allows winboard and UCI engines to run under chessbase?
>
>Uri

Günther



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