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Subject: Re: Commercial release versions of chess software ... bad and good!

Author: Andrew Walker

Date: 17:15:46 11/07/04

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On November 05, 2004 at 06:14:17, Frank Quisinsky wrote:

>On November 04, 2004 at 22:23:56, Andrew Walker wrote:
>
>>On November 04, 2004 at 14:23:09, Frank Quisinsky wrote:
>>
>>>On November 04, 2004 at 13:41:03, Sandro Necchi wrote:
>>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>>I was not complaining, but only making things more clear.
>>>
>>>Yes, why not so we have a nice disucss and the others can read it too.
>>>
>>>>I am making huge pressure on SMK to make higher improvements...unfortunately I
>>>>am never enough satisfied...
>>>
>>>That is professional thinking of course!
>>>
>>>>This is true, but an improvemnt of less than 50 points is not easy to see...
>>>
>>>Yes, for me only with a lot of games :-(
>>>
>>>>Yes, I think Shredder is one of the most important programs of CB.
>>>
>>>Shredder is the most important program we have today.
>>>Simple: Shredder is the number one!
>>>
>>>>I do not like to speak about other chess programs to avoid missunderstandings,
>>>>but I have a lot of respect of the Gandalf team.
>>>>I believe the program is clearly stronger, so the customers should be happy with
>>>>it.
>>>>I have not seen it yet, so mine is just an impression based on what I am
>>>>expecting.
>>>
>>>Here you must understand my position!
>>>
>>>The positions I have in the latest five-six years from the work I do:
>>>
>>>- Group building for make more!
>>>- Animation for get more!
>>>- Compatibility for get more!
>>>- Support for get more!
>>>
>>>For get more:
>>>If I try this I have the result to have more in the future for my own interest.
>>>So you can see that I am thinking on myself with the work I made too.
>>>
>>>I wrote Gandalf and Shredder:
>>>Booth programs are important:
>>>
>>>- Shredder supported a standard protocol (UCI), is the strongest program we
>>>have, good endgame, nice openings, good positional computer chess.
>>>
>>>- Gandalf supported a standard protocol (UCI and WB), have the most interesting
>>>middelgame, played the most shortest games vs. other top programs and we have
>>>fire on the board.
>>>
>>>And now Sandro:
>>>A user asked ... what is a good combination for my fast PC to analyze games.
>>>The right answer is Shredder in combination with Gandalf and all the strong
>>>amateurs we have because each amateur have a selection it's very good. Example
>>>Yace in endgame.
>>>
>>>Booth programs are interesting for users because users can used booth program
>>>under all available GUIs. For me is absolutely clear, my commercial favorits
>>>from the "older" available commercial engines. Like Hiarcs too but the program
>>>is for me not interesting because the engine support is bad.
>>>
>>
>>What do you mean by this? The last few releases have been about 1 year apart,
>>and according to the author a new one is very possible by the end of the year.
>>
>>Andrew
>
>Hi Andrew,
>
>what did you mean exactly?
>Have understanding problems.
>

Frank, I'm just wondering what you mean by "engine support"
Do you mean support for problems, frequency of upgrades or something else?

Andrew



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